s. f. (M.), wife:—do joíṇ dá mánáṇ, dáṛhí khodí te akkhoṇ kánáṇ. The husband of two wives is thin-bearded and one eyed.—Prov. in allusion to the story of the man the elder of whose wives pulled out the black and the younger the white hairs of his beard; and of the man who allowed the wick of the candle to burn his eye out rather than awake his wives: i. q. Jo.