वेणि f. (
-णिः-णी) Unornamented and braided hair; the hair as worn especially by widows and woman whose husbands are absent, when it is simply collected from the forehead and temples as well as the back of the head, and twisted together into a single braid, which is when suffered to fall like a tail down the back, no sort of ornament being worn on the head; the term is also applied gene- rally to any braid of hair, or to a braid of the long hair, of which many are made, and the whole are then twisted together, and worn as a sort of rose or flower at the back of the head.
f. (
-णिः)
1. Assemblage of water, as the conflux of rivers, &c., in that case it rather implies their parallel course, ending in a common point of union; as at Allāhābād, where the GANGĀ, YAMUNĀ, and as is supposed, the SARASWATĪ, all coming from the north, unite; this and other similar places, thence receive the name of Trivenī.
2. Weaving.
f. (
-णी)
1. Stream, current.
2. A ewe.
3. A sort of grass, (Andropogon serratum.)
E. वी to go, Unādi aff.
नि, and in some cases
ङीप् added; or
वेण-इन् . ROOTS:
वी नि ङीप् वेण-इन् .