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लेना lenā, (dialec.) लैना lainā[le˚= Prk. ले(इ)=लह(इ)=S. लभ(ते), rt. लभ् ;+mī= Prk. अणअं=S. अनीयं], v.t. To take, accept, receive; to hold, grasp, lay hold of; to get, obtain, acquire; to reach; to buy, purchase; to borrow;—to absorb, consume; to take possession of, to appropriate; to seize, capture; to win; to overcome, master, conquer; to browbeat; to extort;—to take to task, to chide, rebuke, reprove;—to pick, pluck out (hair); to cut, pare (the nails);—(as a gerund), s.m. Taking, receiving, etc. (=len);—money to be realized, outstanding debt (the verb lenāis frequently annexed to the base of another verb to form intensives, and it becomes neuter itself when the leading verb is such; it is also occasionally used to form nominal verbs, e.g. kām lenā(-se), 'to take work' (from), 'to make use' (of);—mol lenā, 'to purchase'):—le-ḍālnā, v.t. To master completely; to thoroughly overpower or subdue;—to take sharply to task, to rebuke severely; to rate, scold, etc.; to disgrace, to humiliate:—le-lenā, v.t. To take, receive, etc. (=lenā); to take away (from, -se); to conquer or master completely; to take possession of, to seize upon; to take by force; to extort:—lenā-denā, s.m.=len-den, q.v.:—lenāek na denādo, 'Nor one to receive nor two to give'; having nothing to gain or lose:—lene ānā(-ko), To come out (or forth) to receive (a person):—lene-ke dene paṛnā, 'To have to pay instead of receiving'; to be drawn into a difficulty; to be or become a loser (by);—to be on the point of death, to be past all hope.
Origin: Hindi