As a Hindi name
चेतन · noun · masculine
आत्मा । जीव · मनुष्य । आदमी · प्राणी । जीवधारी — Śabdasāgara
चेतन · ćetan · adj.
Percipient, perceiving, observing, sentient, conscious, intelligent, rational; alive, living, feeling; of sound mind; in possession of the senses, awake, aware, wary, alert, vigilant, cautious — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 470
चेतन · ćetan · s.m.
Reason, rationality; caution, &c. ( = ćaitanya, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 470
Cited formation "चेतन" is चेत + -न: चेत means "Thought, perception, sensation, consciousness, wits, sense", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "चेतन" is चेतना + -न: चेतना means "consciousness", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
visible, conspicuous, distinguished, excellent
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "cetana" is the vocative of "cetanā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
cetana mf(ī)n. visible, conspicuous, distinguished, excellent, RV.; AV. ix, 4, 21
percipient, conscious, sentient, intelligent, KaṭhUp. v, 13; ŚvetUp. vi, 13; Hariv. 3587; KapS.; Tattvas. &c.
cetana m. an intelligent being, man, Sarvad. ii, 221
soul, mind, L.
cetana n. conspicuousness, RV. i, 13, 11 and 170, 4; iii, 3, 8; iv, 7, 2
cetanā f. consciousness, understanding, sense, intelligence, Yājñ. iii, 175; MBh. &c. (often ifc. [f(ā). ] Mn. ix, 67; MBh. &c.) (cf. a-, niś-, puru-cet˚, vi-, sa-, su-).
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