As a Hindi name
घाति · noun · feminine
आघात । वध · पक्षियों को जाल में फँसाना या मारना · चिड़िया फँसाने का जाल — Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
catching or killing birds, fowling
Verified derivationMultiple readings (8)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ghāti" is the vocative of "ghātin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. ghāti f. a blow, wound, L.
catching or killing birds, fowling, L.
a bird-net, Uṇ. iv, 124.
2. ghāti in comp. for ˚tin.
ghāti m. (-tiḥ) 1 Catching or killing birds, fowling. 2 Killing in general. 3 Striking. E. hana to kill or hurt, affix iñ, and the radical changed: see ghāta.
ghātin mfn. (Pāṇ. iii, 2, 51 and 86) ifc. killing, murderous, murderer, Mn. viii, 89; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.
destroying, ruining, destructive, iii, 63; R. iii, v
Alternative readings
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