As a deity name
Name 182 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
केवल · adj
एकमात्र । अकेला · शुद्ध । पवित्र · अमिश्रित । उत्कृष्ट । उत्तम श्रेष्ठ — Śabdasāgara
केवल · verb
वि सिर्फ । उ॰ केवल हूँमा की हुँकारी की झांई पर्वत के कंदरों में बोलती है । — श्यामा॰ , पृ॰ ७९ — Śabdasāgara
केवल · keval · adj.
Only, simple, mere, sole, exclusively proper; peculiar; absolute; rare — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 890
केवल
sole; one and only
केवल
only; solely; merely
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi केवल — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit केवल (kévala).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kevala mf(ā, ī)n. (m. nom. pl. e, RV. x, 51, 9) (f. ī, RV. x, 73, 6; AV.; ŚBr.; ā, Mn. &c. See Pāṇ. iv, 1, 30) (n. in comp. Pāṇ. ii, 1, 49) exclusively one's own (not common to others), RV.; AV.
alone, only, mere, sole, one, excluding others, RV.; AV.; TS. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
āī ( nom. pl. e, ) ( ī, ā, &c. See ) ( in comp. ) exclusively one's own (not common to others)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kevala" is the vocative of "kevalā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
kevala mf(ā, ī)n. (m. nom. pl. e, RV. x, 51, 9) (f. ī, RV. x, 73, 6; AV.; ŚBr.; ā, Mn. &c. See Pāṇ. iv, 1, 30) (n. in comp. Pāṇ. ii, 1, 49) exclusively one's own (not common to others), RV.; AV.
alone, only, mere, sole, one, excluding others, RV.; AV.; TS. &c.
not connected with anything else, isolated, abstract, absolute
simple, pure, uncompounded, unmingled, ŚBr. &c.
entire, whole, all, Mn.; MBh. &c.
kevalā f. N. of a locality, MBh. iii, 254, 10 (v.l. ˚lī)
Alternative readings
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