भयण

Konkani

Alternative forms

• बोयण (boyaṇ)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit भगिनी (bhaginī).

Pronunciation

• (Goud Saraswat) IPA^(key): [bʰəjɳ]
• (Roman Catholic) IPA^(key): [bojɳ]

Noun

भयण • (bhayaṇ) (Latin script boinn, Kannada script ಭಯ್ಣ್)

1. sister

   Synonym: भगिनी (bhaginī)

   Coordinate term: भाव (bhāv)

References

• Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei (1883) An English-Konkani Dictionary: And A Konkani-English Dictionary‎^[1], Mangalore: Basel Mission Press
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017) IndoWordNet‎^[2]
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bhagini”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 531