As a Hindi name
देना
to give, grant, award; to lay (eggs), give birth to; to orate, deliver; to pay
Śabdasāgara also records: दीपों की पंक्ति · दीवाली
Platts (p. 555) also records: = diwālī, q.v
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Hindi verb set देना (denā) दिलाना (dilānā) दिलवाना (dilvānā) Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti Sanskrit ददा॑ति (dádāti) ▲ Prakrit 𑀡𑁂𑀇 (ṇei)influ. Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀇 (dei) Old Hindi देना (…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘a row of l˚’, a festival with illuminations on the day of new moon in the month Āśvina or Kārttika (Dīwālī)
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Dictionary citations
dīpālī f. ‘a row of l˚’, a festival with illuminations on the day of new moon in the month Āśvina or Kārttika (Dīwālī), RTL. 432
dīpālī f. (-lī) 1 The day of new moon in the month Aśvin or Kārttika, (September-October,) a festival with nocturnal illuminations in honor of KĀRTTIKEYA; the Divalī, as it is usually termed. 2 A row or range of lamps. E. dīpa a lamp, and ālī a line; also dīpāvalī the same.
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