بن

बन ban [S. वन], s.m. (f. ?), Forest, jungle, wood, grove, copse, brake; cotton-field; cotton crop:—ban-bās (S. vana+vāsa), banobās, s.m. Living in a wood, residence in a forest; wild or unsettled manner of life;—banishment, exile;—one who lives in a wood, etc. (=next):—ban-bāsī, adj. & s.m. Dwelling in a forest or wood; dweller in woods, inhabitant of a forest, forester; hermit, anchorite;—s.f. Life of a hermit:—ban-bilā`o, s.m. ban-billī, s.f. (S. vana+viḍāla), A kind of wild cat, Felis caracal:—ban-bihār (S. vana+vihāra), s.m. Wandering or sporting in the woods or forests:—ban-bhāṅṭā(S. vana+bhaṇṭākī), s.m. The wild egg-plant, Solanum melongena:—ban-prasth, adj. & s.m. Retiring into a forest, leading the life of an anchorite;—hermit, anchorite:—ban-paśu, s.m.f. Forest animal, wild animal, wild beast:—ban-phal, s.m. Forest fruit, wild fruit:—ban-tura`ī, ban-turo`i, s.f. A wild species of the Luffa (or Cucumis) acutangula:—ban-tariyā, s.m. Name of a class of people who formerlyacted as wood-rangers in Gorakhpur:—ban-tītar, s.m. The sand-grouse (=barr-tītar, q.v.):—ban-jātrā(S. vana+yātrā), s.f. Pilgrimage through the eighty-four forests of the Braj country:—ban-jātrī, s.m. A pilgrim who makes the above pilgrimage:—ban jhāṛnā, v.n. To beat the forests or woods:—ban-ćar, adj. & s.m. Moving or living in a forest or wood, sylvan, wild, savage;—any creature, or wild animal, that inhabits the jungle; monkey; forester woodman; wild man, savage:—ban-ćarī, s.f. A kind of high jungle grass of which elephants are very fond:—ban-devtā, s.m. Forest-god or divinity:—ban-saṭī, s.f. Wood of the cotton tree (used for fuel, and in the sides of grain-carts):—ban-salāmī, s.f. Fee exacted by the landlord from the cultivator for permission to collect the juice of the forest date-trees:—ban-kaṭī, ban-kaṭṭī, s.f. Fee paid for cutting timber in a forest; the right obtained by clearing a jungle and bringing it under cultivation; cleared land:—ban-kanḍā, s.m. Dried cow-dung found in forests (and used as fuel):—ban-kar, s.m. Produce of jungle or forest lands (e.g. gum, honey, etc.); revenue from woods and forests:—ban-kas, s.m. Grass used in making ropes:—ban-kharā, s.m. Land on which cotton has grown during the past season:—ban-khaṇḍ, s.m. Wood, forest:—ban-khanḍī, s.m. Name of a forest in India:—ban-gauṅṭhā, ban-goṅṭhā(S. vana+go+vishṭhā), s.m.=ban-kanḍā, q.v.:—banmāćhī(S. vana+makshikā), s.m. Gad-fly; the jungle bee, wild-honey bee:—ban mārnā, v.n.=ban-jhāṛnā, q.v.:—ban-māl, ban-mālā, s.f.