संतान

Borrowed from Sanskrit संतान (saṃtāna).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /sən.t̪ɑːn/, [sɐ̃n̪.t̪ä̃ːn]

संतान • (santān) f (Urdu spelling سنتان)

1. offspring, progeny

संतान • (santān) m or f by sense

1. a descendant, child

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “संतान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From सम् (sam, “together, along with”) + तन् (tan, “to propagate, protract, perform”).

संतान • (saṃtāna) stem, m

1. continued succession, continuance, continuity
2. an uninterrupted series, continuous flow
3. ramification
4. a sinew or ligature (of an animal)
5. coherence, connection, transition (in recitation &c.)
6. a continuous train of thought

संतान • (saṃtāna) stem, m or n

1. continuous succession, lineage, race, family, offspring, son or daughter

• → Hindi: संतान (santān)
• → Punjabi: ਸੰਤਾਨ (santān)
• → Telugu: సంతానము (santānamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “संतान”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 435,1142,1152.