डैना

Hindi

From Sanskrit डयन (ḍayana, “bird's flight”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-). Doublet of डैन (ḍain).

डैना • (ḍainā) m (Urdu spelling ڈَینا)

wing
Synonyms: डैन (ḍain), पंख (paṅkh), पर (par), बाज़ू (bāzū)
sail (of a boat or windmill)
Synonyms: (of a boat) पाल (pāl), (of a boat) बादबान (bādbān)
- 1962 May, Dharamvir Bharati, इंगलैण्ड : मगर कौन-सा; republished in Chandrakant Bandiwadekar, editor, धर्मवीर भारती ग्रन्थावली, 2007: second edition, volume 7, Vani Prakashan, 1998, →ISBN, page 61:
  इमारत की चोटी पर आकाश में बिजली के बल्बों से बनी हवाचक्की के चार बड़े-बड़े डैने निरन्तर घूम रहे हैं। ये डैने सौ साल से घूम रहे हैं।
  imārat kī coṭī par ākāś mẽ bijlī ke balbõ se banī havācakkī ke cār baṛe-baṛe ḍaine nirantar ghūm rahe ha͠i. ye ḍaine sau sāl se ghūm rahe ha͠i.
  On the top of the building, four large blades of a windmill made of electric bulbs are continuously rotating in the sky. These blades have been rotating for a hundred years.
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) oar
Synonyms: चप्पू (cappū), डाँड़ (ḍā̃ṛ)
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) bough, tree-branch
Synonyms: डाल (ḍāl), शाखा (śākhā)

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