adjective wanting, deficient less MN.ii.73; Ja.v.330; Dhp-a.i.77; Dhp-a.iv.210. Mostly adverbially with numerals = one less, but one, minus (one or two); usually with eka (as ekūna one less, e.g. ekūna-aṭṭhasataṃ (799) Ja.i.57; ekūna-pañcasate Kp-a.91 ekūna-vīsati (19) Vism.287; eken’ūnesu pañcasu attabhāvasatesu (499) Ja.i.167; also with eka in instr. as eken’ūnapañcasatāni (deficient by one) Vin.ii.285; Kp-a.91; sometimes without eka, e.g. ūnapañcasatāni (499) Vin.iii.284 ūnavīsati (19) Vin.iv.130, Vin.iv.148. With “two” less: dvīhi ūnaṃ sahassaṃ (998) Ja.i.255
■ anūna not deficient complete Pv-a.285 (= paripuṇṇa).

• -udara (ūnudara, ūnūdara, ūnodara) an empty stomach adj. of empty stomach; ˚udara Ja.ii.293; Ja.vi.295; -ūdara Ja.vi.258; Mil.406; odara Snp.707; Dhp-a.i.170.
• -bhāva depletion, deficiency Snp-a.463 (variant reading hānabhāva).

Vedic ūna; cp. Av. ūna, Gr. ε ̓ϋνις, Lat. vāpus, Goth. wans, Ags. won = E. want