kárṇa m. (√kṛt Nir
• √1. kṝ Uṇ. iii, 10), the ear RV. AV. TS. Suśr. (ápi kárṇe, behind the ear or back, from behind RV. [cf. apikarṇá]
• karṇe, in dram. into the ear, in a low voice, aside Mṛicch. Mālav
• karṇaṃ √dā, to give ear to, listen to Śak. Mṛicch
• karṇam ā-√gam, to come to one's ear, become known to Ragh. i, 9)
• the handle or ear of a vessel RV. viii, 72, 12 ŚBr. ix KātyŚr. &c
• the helm or rudder of a ship R
• (in geom.) the hypothenuse of a triangle or the diagonal of a tetragon Hcat. &c
• the diameter of a circle, Sūryas
• (in prosody) a spondee
• Cassia Fistula L
• Calotropis Gigantea L
• N. of a king of Aṅga (and elder brother by the mother's side of the Pāṇḍu princes, being the son of the god Sūrya by Pṛithā or Kuntī, before her marriage with Pāṇḍu
• afraid of the censure of her relatives, Kuntī deserted the child and exposed it in the river, where it was found by a charioteer named Adhi-ratha and nurtured by his wife Rādhā [Page 256, Column 3]
• hence Karṇa is sometimes called Sūta-putra or Sūta-ja, sometimes Rādheya, though named by his foster-parents Vasu-sheṇa) MBh. BhP. &c
• N. of several other men
• (mfn. karṇá), eared, furnished with ears or long ears AV. v, 13, 9 VS. TS
• furnished with chaff (as grain) TS. i, 8, 9, 3

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William

 

snyan

[translation-san] {C} karṇa

[translation-san] {C} kāvya

[translation-san] {C} priya

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} ear

[translation-eng] {C} poetry; poem; dear; kind

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary