As a deity name
Name 189 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 550 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 855 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 394 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
As a Hindi name
अनेक · adj
एक से अधिक । बहुत । ज्यादा । असंख्य । अनगिनत — Śabdasāgara
अनेक · an-ek · adj.
Not one, many, manifold, several, diverse, various; much, abundant; (in Gram.) plural — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 100
अनेक
more than one; many, several; various
Cited formation "अनेक" is अ- + नेक: नेक means "virtuous, pure, good", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अनेक" is अ- + नेक: नेक means "virtuous, pure, good", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अनेक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अनेक (aneka).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
an-eka mfn. not one, many, much
separated.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
not one, many, much
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
an-eka mfn. not one, many, much
separated.
aneka a. 1 Not one; more than one, many; anekapitṛkāṇāṃ tu pitṛto bhāgakalpanā Y. 2. 120, Ki. 1. 16; several, various; tathātmaiko'pyanekaśca Y. 3. 144. 2 Separated; divided; oft. in comp.; ˚ākāra having many shapes or forms; diverse, multiform; ˚kālaṃ-vāraṃ several times, many a time and oft; ˚bhārya having more wives than one. Comp. — akṣara, — ac a. having more than one vowel or syllable; polysyllabic. — agra a. 1 engaged in several pursuits. 2 not concentrated or fixed on one object. — aṃta a. 1 [na. ba.] not alone so as to exclude all others, uncertain, doubtful, variable; syādityavyayamanekāṃtavācakaṃ 2 = anaikāṃtika q. v. — (taḥ) 1 unsettled condition, absence of permanence. 2 uncertainty, doubtfulness. 3 an unessential part, as the several anubandhas. ˚vādaḥ scepticism. ˚vādin m. a sceptic, a Jaina or an Arhat of the Jainas. — artha a. 1 having many (more than one) meanings, homonymous; as the words go, amṛta, akṣa &c.; anekārthasya śabdasya K. P. 2. 2 having the sense of the word aneka. 3 having many objects or purposes. — (rthaḥ) multiplicity of objects, topics &c. — al a. having more than one al (letter) P. I. 1. 55. — āśraya, -āśrita a. (in Vaiś. phil.) dwelling or abiding in more than one (such as saṃyoga, sāmānya); ete'nekāśritā guṇāḥ Bhāṣā P.; dependence upon more than one. — kṛt m. ‘doing much’, N. of Śiva. — guṇa a. of many kinds, manifold, diverse; vigaṇayya kāraṇamanekaguṇaṃ Ki. 6. 37. — guptaḥ N. of a king; ˚arcitapādapaṃkajaḥ K. 3. — gotra a. belonging to two families (such as a boy when adopted), i. e. that of his own, and that of his adoptive, father. — cara a. gregarious. — citta a. not of one mind, fickle-minded; ˚maṃtraḥ not following the counsels of (pb) one; H. 4. 31. — ja a. born more than once. — (jaḥ) a bird (garbhāṃḍābhyāṃ jātatvāt). — paḥ an elephant (so called because he drinks with his trunk and mouth); cf. dvipa; vanyetarānekapadarśanena R. 5. 47; Śi. 5. 35, 12. 75. — mukha a. (khī f.) a. 1 having many faces, many-faced. 2 scattered, dispersed, going in various directions, taking to various ways; (balāni) jagāhire' nekamukhāni mārgān Bk. 2. 54. — mūrtiḥ ‘having many forms’, N. of Viṣṇu who assumed various forms to deliver the earth from calamities. — yuddhavijayin, -vijayin a. victorious in many battles; Pt. 3. 9, 11. — rūpa a. 1 of various forms, multiform. 2 of various kinds or sorts. 3 fickle, changeable, of a varying nature; veśyāṃganeva nṛpanītiranekarūpā Pt. 1. 425. — (paḥ) epithet of the Supreme Being. — locanaḥ N. of Śiva; also of Indra, and of the Supreme Being, he being said to be sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt &c. — vacanaṃ the plural number; dual also. — varṇa a. involving more than one (unknown) quantity (the unknown quantities x. y. z. &c. being represented in Sanskrit by colours nīla, kāla &c.); ˚samīkaraṇaṃ simultaneous equation; ˚guṇanaṃ, ˚vyavakalanaṃ, ˚hāraḥ multiplication, subtraction or division of unknown quantities. — vidha a. various, different. — śapha a. cloven-hoofed. — śabda a. synonymous. — sādhāraṇa a. common to many, the common property of many persons Dk. 83.
aneka mfn. (-kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) Many, much, not one. E. an neg. eka one.
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