शहाणे

Marathi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *सज्ञान (sajñāna).

Cognates

Assamese সিয়ান (xian), Bengali শিয়ানা (śiẏana), Hindi सयान (sayān), Gujarati શાણું (śāṇũ), Kumaoni सयाणो (sayāṇo), Konkani शाणें (śāṇẽ), Nepali सियाना (siyānā), Odia ସିଆଣ (siāṇa), Punjabi سیْاݨا (siyāṇā), and Sindhi سِياٹو (siāṇo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕə.ɦa.ɳe/, [ɕa.ɳe]

Adjective

शहाणे • (śahāṇe)

1. wise, sensible, good (said of a child)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:चलाख

References

• Berntsen Date, Molesworth, Tulpule/Feldhaus Vaze (2022) “शहाणे”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Marathi Dictionaries]
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*sajāna”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 757