بانی

बानी bānī[S. वणर् +इका], s.f. Peculiar disposition or mental constitution; natural temper; profession, pretension; any property or virtue, etc. upon which one prides or plumes oneself; fabric, structure; price paid for making a thing or for doing a work (syn. banwā`ī);—a yellow earth with which potters ornament vessels;—ashes;—a measure of weight equal to eighty rupees:—bānī-par ānā(apnī), To take one's stand upon one's pretension, dignity, etc.; to be roused so as to let one's temper appear, to show one's natural wrath, etc.