As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of dish (sort of sauce, vegetables made into a pulp and mixed with turmeric and mustard seeds and capsicums; cf. matsya-)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ghaṇṭa" is the vocative of "ghaṇṭā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
ghaṇṭa m. (for hantra?) N. of Śiva, MBh. xii, 10377 and 10419; Hariv. 14884 (cf. ghaṭin)
a kind of dish (sort of sauce, vegetables made into a pulp and mixed with turmeric and mustard seeds and capsicums; cf. matsya-), W.
N. of a Dānava, Kathās. cxxi, 229
ghaṇṭa m. (-ṇṭaḥ) A sort of sauce, vegetables made into a pulp with water, turmeric, mustard seeds and capsicums. f. (-ṇṭā) 1 A bell; also a plate of iron or mixed metal struck as a bell. 2 A plant: see ghaṇṭāpāṭalī. E. hana to strike, ṭa affix, fem. ṭāp, and deriv. irr.
ghaṇṭā f. a bell, MBh.; R. &c. (ifc. f(ā). , MBh. xiv; R. vi)
a plate of iron or mixed metal struck as a clock, W. (cf. ghaṭī)
Alternative readings
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