कान्तार

{ kāntārḥ }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

कान्तार  mn.  mn. a large wood, forest, wilderness, waste, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Yājñ. ii, 38]; [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.]
a difficult road through a forest, forest-path, [L.]
a hole, cavity, [L.]
कान्तार  m.  m. a red variety of the sugar-cane, [Suśr.]
a bamboo, [L.]
the mountain ebony ( Bauhinia variegata), [L.]
(in music) a kind of measure
कान्तार  n.  n. a national calamity, calamity, [Kāraṇḍ.]; xlvii, 15 and 20
the blossom of a kind of lotus, lotus, [L.]
a symptom or symptomatic disease, [W.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

कान्तारः [kāntārḥ] रम् [ram]   रम् 1 A large or dreary forest; गृहं तु गृहिणीहीनं कान्तारादतिरिच्यते [Pt.4.81;] [Bh.1.86;] [Y.2.38.]
A bad road.
A hole, cavity.
रः A red variety of the sugar-cane.
Mountain ebony.
A bamboo.
-री   A kind of sugar-cane
रम् A symptom.
A lotus.
A class of the six-storeyed buildings. [Māna.24.13-14]

Shabda-Sagara

कान्तार  mn.  ( -रः-रं)
1. A had or difficult road.
2. A wood, a forest.
3. A hole, a cavity.
 m.  ( -रः)
1. A red variety of the sugar-cane. 2. A bamboo.
3. Mountain ebony.
 n.  ( -रं)
1. A symptom or sympto- matic disease.
2. A lotus.
 f.  ( -री) A sort of sugar-cane.
E. कान् for कञ्चित् any one, here meaning no one, तृ to go, in the causal, form, अच् affix; allowing none to pass; or क pleasure, &c. अन्त end, ऋ to go, अण् aff.

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कान् कञ्चित् तृ अच् क अन्त ऋ अण्