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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
purana is a noun meaning "a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances". It carries one recorded sense.
a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for purana come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.