मर्दन

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मर्दन (mardana).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /məɾ.d̪ən/, [mɐɾ.d̪ɐ̃n]

मर्दन • (mardan) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling مردن)

1. crushing, grinding, destroying, tormenting, rubbing

मर्दन • (mardan) m (Urdu spelling مردن)

1. the act of rubbing; anointing (with oil or cosmetic paste)
2. crushing, grinding
3. trampling, destroying

• Platts, John T. (1884) “मर्दन”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मर्दन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From the root मृद् (mṛd, “to squeeze, press, rub, crush”) +‎ -अन (-ana).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐɾ.dɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐɾ.d̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

मर्दन • (mardana) stem

1. crushing, grinding, destroying, tormenting, rubbing

मर्दन • (mardana) stem, n

1. the act of crushing or grinding or destroying
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   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.26.40:

     Fire is appreciated by its light and by its ability to cook, to digest, to cause destruction of cold, to evaporate, and to give rise to hunger, thirst, eating and drinking.

2. rubbing, anointing, shampooing
3. opposition (as of planets)
4. paining, tormenting, afflicting
5. breaking up (of ice)

• Pali: maddana
• Prakrit: 𑀫𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀡 (maddaṇa)
  • Gujarati: માડણ (māḍaṇ)
• → Hindustani: mardan

  Hindi: मर्दन

  Urdu: مردن

• Monier Williams (1899) “मर्दन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 791, column 2.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मर्दन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “mardana”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mardana”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press