मना

Hindi

Borrowed from Classical Persian (man'), from Arabic مَنْع (manʕ), verbal noun of مَنَعَ (manaʕa, “to prevent, forbid”). Compare Bengali মানা (mana), Dhivehi މަނާ (manā).

मना • (manā) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling منع)

forbidden, prohibited
यहाँ धूम्रपान मना है। ― yahā̃ dhūmrapān manā hai. ― Smoking is forbidden here.
denial
Synonym: नकार (nakār)

Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “मना”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मना”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

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मना (manā)

From the root मन् (man) +‎ -आ (-ā).

मना • (manā́) stem, f

Feminine ā-stem declension of मना (manā́)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	मना manā́	मने mané	मनाः manā́ḥ
Vocative	मने máne	मने máne	मनाः mánāḥ
Accusative	मनाम् manā́m	मने mané	मनाः manā́ḥ
Instrumental	मनया / मना¹ manáyā / manā́¹	मनाभ्याम् manā́bhyām	मनाभिः manā́bhiḥ
Dative	मनायै manā́yai	मनाभ्याम् manā́bhyām	मनाभ्यः manā́bhyaḥ
Ablative	मनायाः / मनायै² manā́yāḥ / manā́yai²	मनाभ्याम् manā́bhyām	मनाभ्यः manā́bhyaḥ
Genitive	मनायाः / मनायै² manā́yāḥ / manā́yai²	मनयोः manáyoḥ	मनानाम् manā́nām
Locative	मनायाम् manā́yām	मनयोः manáyoḥ	मनासु manā́su
Notes	¹Vedic ²Brāhmaṇas

Monier Williams (1899) “मना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 784, column 1.