Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“evil”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“evil”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
कुबेर · noun · masculine
एक देवता, जो इंद्र की नौ निधियों के भंडारी और महादेव जी के मित्रसमझे जाते हैं · जैन मत में वर्तमान अवसर्पिणी (कावगति) के १९ वे अर्हत् का एक उपासक · तुन का पेड़ — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ कुवेर
कुबेर · kuber · s.m.
The god of wealth ( = kuver, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 810
कुबेर · masculine
Kubera, Kuvera (Vedic god of wealth)
Cited formation "कुबेर" is कु- + बेर: बेर means "Indian jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana) or its fruit", and the prefix कु- forms bad, evil. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(20) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कुबेर — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit कुबेर (kubera).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kubera m. or in later Sanskṛt kuvera (originally) N. of a chief of the evil beings or spirits or darkness having the N. Vaiśravaṇa, AV. viii, 10, 28; ŚBr. &c.
(afterwards) the god of riches and treasure (regent of the northern quarter which is hence called kubera-guptā diś, Kum. iii, 25), Mn.; MBh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the god of riches and treasure (regent of the northern quarter which is hence called kubera-guptā diś, ), &c.
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kubera m. or in later Sanskṛt kuvera (originally) N. of a chief of the evil beings or spirits or darkness having the N. Vaiśravaṇa, AV. viii, 10, 28; ŚBr. &c.
(afterwards) the god of riches and treasure (regent of the northern quarter which is hence called kubera-guptā diś, Kum. iii, 25), Mn.; MBh. &c.
(he is regarded as the son of Viśravas by Iḍaviḍā [BhP.], the chief of the Yakṣas, and a friend of Rudra [Hariv. 13131]; he is represented as having three legs and only eight teeth; with Jainas he is the attendant of the nineteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī)
N. of a prince of Devarāṣṭra
of the great-grandfather of Bāṇa-bhaṭṭa (author of the Kādambarī)
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