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vanaṁ

vana

accusative singular neuter of vana (noun)

  1. forest
  2. wood
  3. wilderness

Etymology. Sanskrit vana, cognate with English wood (Germanic *wudu-) and Greek ὕλη hulē 'matter, wood'. All derive from the same Indo-European root *u̯edh- 'to bind, interweave' (wood being interwoven fiber), though the semantic path in Pali is primarily 'overgrown place'.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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