sūnā | सूना | sUnA

sūnā | सूना | (A), f. a daughter, L. (for other meanings See sūnā | सूना |, p. 1242, col. 3)
sūnā/ | सूना/ | f. (prob. fr. √ siv | सिव् |, ‘to sew’, and connected with sūci | सूचि | and sūtra | सूत्र |; cf. sūna | सून |, p. 1240, col. 1) a woven wicker-work basket or vessel of any kind, RV.; AV.; GṛŚrS.
a place for slaughtering animals, slaughter-house, butchery (wrongly ṣūnā | षूना |; cf. sūdanā | सूदना |), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
the sale of flesh or meat, MW.
any place or utensil in a house where animals are liable to be accidentally destroyed (see paẏca-sūnā | पय़्च-सूना |)
a stick fixed to an elephant's hook, L.
killing, hurting, injuring, BhP.
imminent death, danger of life (sūnāyām api | सूनायाम् अपि |, ‘even in the last extremity’), ib.
the uvula or soft palate (in this and the next sense perhaps connected with ṣūna | षून |), L.
inflammation of the glands of the neck (commonly called ‘mumps’), W. (accord. to some also, ‘a zone, girdle’; ‘a ray’; ‘a river’).

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