Hindi

Noun

सेना • ‎(senā) f ‎(Urdu spelling سینا)

1. army, military, body of troops

   शत्रु ने दोनों सेनाओं को हरा दिया।

   The enemy defeated both the armies.

Synonyms

• फ़ौज ‎(fauj)

References

• Hardev Bahri (accessed 09-25-2012), “Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

Marathi

Noun

सेना • ‎(senā) ?

1. army

Sanskrit

Etymology

According to native grammarians, from the root √si ‎(√si, “to hurl, cast”). Compare सायक ‎(sā́yaka). Possibly from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Middle Persian hyn' ‎(hēn)).

Noun

सेना • ‎(sénā) f

1. missile, dart, spear (RV., AV.)
2. name of Indra's wife (or his thunderbolt so personified) (TS., AitBr., Vait.)
3. an army, armament, battle-array, armed force (also personified as wife of Kārttikeya; at the end of a compound also सेन ‎(sena)) (RV. etc.)
4. a small army (consisting of 3 elephants, 3 chariots, 9 horse, and 15 foot) (L.)
5. any drilled troop or band or body of men (Bālar.)
6. a kind of title or addition to the names of persons (also names of courtezans) (Sāh.; compare Pāṇ. 4-1, 152 etc.)
7. name of a courtezan (abridged from कुबेरसेना ‎(kubera-senā)) (HPariś.)
8. name of the mother of शम्भव ‎(śambhava) (the third arhat of the present avasarpiṇī) (L.)

Declension

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1246