वेणि

{ vēṇiḥ }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वेणि  f.  f. ( fr. √ 1. वे) weaving, braiding, [L.]
एक-वेणि   braided hair or a braid of hair, hair twisted into a single unornamented braid and allowed to fall on the back (so worn by widows and women who mourn for absent husbands cf.; the water of a river is often compared to such a braid, but in these meanings the form वेणी is more common See below), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

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एक वेणि

त्रिव्°   the confluence or meeting of two or more rivers or streams in a common point of union (as at प्रयाग or Allāhābād cf.), [W.]
   property re-united after it has been before divided, [Vas.]
   a cascade, [L.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

वेणिः [vēṇiḥ] णी [ṇī]   णी f. [वेण्-इन्-वा ङीप् [Uṇ.4.18] ]
   Braided hair, a braid of hair; तरङ्गिणी वेणिरिवायता भुवः [Śi.12.75;] [Me. 18.]
   Hair twisted into a single unornamented braid and allowed to fall on the back (said to be worn by wom en whose husbands are absent from them); वनान्निवृत्तेन रघूत्तमेन मुक्ता स्वयं वेणिरिवावभासे [R.14.12;] अबलावेणिमोक्षोत्सुकानि [Me.11;] [Ku.2.61.]
   Continuous flow, current, stream; जलवेणिरम्यां रेवां यदि प्रेक्षितुमस्ति कामः [R.6.43;] [Me. 2;] प्रवृत्तबाष्पवेणिकं चक्षुः प्रमृज्य K.; cf. the word त्रिवेणि also.
   The confluence of two or more rivers.
   The confluence of the Ganges, Yamunā and Sarasvatī.
  N. N. of a river.
   The property re-united after it has been before divided.
   A cascade.
   A dam, bridge.
   A ewe. -Comp.
-बन्धः   hair twisted into a braid; मोक्ष्यध्वे स्वर्गबन्दीनां वेणीबन्धानदूषितान् [R.1.47.]
-वेधनी   a leech.-वेधिनी a comb.
   संहारः tying the hair into a braid; [Ve.6.]
  N. N. of a drama by Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṅa.

Shabda-Sagara

वेणि  f.  ( -णिः-णी) Unornamented and braided hair; the hair as worn especially by widows and woman whose husbands are absent, when it is simply collected from the forehead and temples as well as the back of the head, and twisted together into a single braid, which is when suffered to fall like a tail down the back, no sort of ornament being worn on the head; the term is also applied gene- rally to any braid of hair, or to a braid of the long hair, of which many are made, and the whole are then twisted together, and worn as a sort of rose or flower at the back of the head.
  f.  ( -णिः)
   1. Assemblage of water, as the conflux of rivers, &c., in that case it rather implies their parallel course, ending in a common point of union; as at Allāhābād, where the GANGĀ, YAMUNĀ, and as is supposed, the SARASWATĪ, all coming from the north, unite; this and other similar places, thence receive the name of Trivenī.
   2. Weaving.
  f.  ( -णी)
   1. Stream, current.
   2. A ewe.
   3. A sort of grass, (Andropogon serratum.)
    E. वी to go, Unādi aff. नि, and in some cases ङीप् added; or वेण-इन् .

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वी नि ङीप् वेण-इन् .