As a deity name
Name 125 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
दीर्घ · adj
आयत । लंबा · बड़ा । (देश और काल दोनों के लिये, जैसे, दीर्घक्षेत्र, दीर्घवस्त्र, दीर्घकाल) · विस्तृत । फैला हुआ (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
दीर्घ · noun · masculine
लता शालवृक्ष · माड वृक्ष · रामशर । नर- कट — Śabdasāgara
दीर्घ · dīrgha · adj.
(f. -ā), Long (as space, or time, or the quantity of a vowel); lofty, high, tall; grave, weighty — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 557
दीर्घ
long; tall; weighty
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi दीर्घ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrghá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dr̥Hgʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”). Doublet of दीह (dīh) and देर (der).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dīrgha mf(ā)n. (compar. drāghīyas, superl. drāghiṣṭha [qq.vv.]; rarely dīrghatara [Pañc. iv, 13/14] and ˚tama [BhP. vii, 5, 44]) long (in space and time), lofty, high, tall
deep, RV.; AV.; Br. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(compar. drāghīyas, superl. drāghiṣṭha [qq.vv.]; rarely dīrghatara and ˚tama ) long (in space and time), lofty, high, tall
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "dīrgha" is the vocative of "dīrghā" — 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
dīrgha mf(ā)n. (compar. drāghīyas, superl. drāghiṣṭha [qq.vv.]; rarely dīrghatara [Pañc. iv, 13/14] and ˚tama [BhP. vii, 5, 44]) long (in space and time), lofty, high, tall
deep, RV.; AV.; Br. &c.
long (in prosody), Prāt.; Mn. &c.
dīrgha m. a long vowel, Gobh. ii, 8, 15; KātyŚr. &c.
a camel, L.
dīrghā (ā), f. an oblong tank (cf. ˚ghikā), R. v, 16, 27
a kind of plant = -pattrā, L.
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