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तनु mfn. mf(उस्, ऊ॑स्, वी)n. thin, slender, attenuated, emaciated, small, little, minute, delicate, fine (texture, [Ṛtus. i, 7] ), [ŚBr. iii, 5, 4, 21] ; KātyŚr. viii, 5; [MBh.] &c. (in comp. g. कडारा-दि; also = -दग्ध, [Sarvad. xv, 189] ) °न्वम् f. (said of a speech or hymn) accomplished (in metre), [RV. viii, 1, 18 and] (acc. f.), 76, 12 तनु m. m. (g. 2. लोहिता-दि, not in [Kāś.] ) N. of a ऋषि with a very emaciated body, [MBh. xii, 4665] तनु m. f. (उस्) (once m., [Bhām. ii, 79] ) = °नू॑ (See s.v. ), the body, person, self (cf. दुष्-टनु, प्रिय॑-), [AitBr. viii, 24, 4] (ifc. ), [Mn.] (स्वका त्°, ‘one's own person’, iv, 184), [MBh.] ; [Hariv.] (acc. pl. irr. °नवस्, 3813) &c. (इयं तनुर् मम, ‘this my self. i.e. I myself here’ [Ratnâv. iv, 4] ; °नुं-√ त्यज् or हा, ‘to give up one's life’ [Mn. vi, 32] ; [BhP. iii] ; [Kathās.] ) तनु m. m. form or manifestation, [Śak. i, 1] the skin, [L.] -गृह = , [VarBṛ.] ; [Laghuj.] तनु [cf. τανυ-; Lat. tenuis &c.]
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