ون

वन van, or wan, vulg. ban, s.m. A forest, jungle, wood, etc. (i.q. ban, q.v.);—water; a fountain, spring; a cascade;—dwelling in a forest;—residence abroad;—dwelling-place, abode, residence, house:—vanāśram (na˚+āś˚), s.m. Abode in the forest, the third āśramor stage in a Brāhmaṇ's life, when he becomes a Vāna-prasthor hermit:—vanāśray (˚na+āś), adj. & s.m. Living in a forest;—an inhabitant of a forest or wood:—vanānt (˚na+an˚), s.m. The skirts of a wood; neighbourhood of a forest:—vanāntar (˚na+an˚), s.m. The middle or interior of a wood;—another wood:—van-prasth, or van-prasthāyī, adj. & s.m.=ban-prasth, q.v.:—van-ćārak, (f. -ikā), or van-ćārī(f. -iṇī), or van-ćar (f. -ī), adj. & s.m.=ban-ćar, q.v.:—van-rāj, s.m. 'Forest-king,' an epithet of the lion:—vansthāyī, adj. & s.m. (f. -inī), Being or abiding in a forest;—a hermit, an anchorite (syn. vanvāsī):—van-sthit, part. adj. (f. -ā), Situate or being in a forest; sylvan; wild; savage:—vankaću, s.m. A species of arum, A. colocasia:—van-madhu, s.m. Honey produced in the jungle, wild honey:—van-vās (f. -ā), or van-vāsī(f. -inī), adj. & s.m.=ban-bās, or ban-bāsī, q.v.:—van-vāsī, vulg. ban-bāsī, s.f. Dwelling in the forest;—the state of one who dwells in the forest; the life of a hermit:—van-viḍāl, or viṛāl, s.m. = ban-bilā`o, q.v.:—van-vihār, s.m.=banbihār, q.v.:—van-yātrā, s.f.=ban-jātrā, q.v.:—vane-ćar (vane, S. loc. of vana), adj. & s.m.=van-ćaror ban-ćar, q.v. (For other compounds see ban.)