Word history
Wiktionary records सेन (sen) as a Hindi surname. The etymology traces Sen through the Prakrit form seṇā to Sanskrit senā. Monier-Williams records army or armed force as a sense of the older word. The final vowel of the Sanskrit noun is absent from Sen. सेन retains the shorter sequence; this lexical history does not establish service in an army by any individual.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense · Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword senā, page 1246, column 2, entry L252148
Literal dictionary sense
Native-script forms
सेन · Devanagari
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword senā, page 1246, column 2, entry L252148
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