As a Hindi name
नद · noun · masculine
बड़ी नदी अथवा ऐसी नदी जिसका नाम पुल्लिंगवाची हो; जैसे सोन, दामोदर, ब्रह्मपुत्र · एक ऋषि का नाम · समुद्र (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
नद · nad · s.m.
A river (the personification of which is male, as the Brahma-putr, Son, Indus, &c — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1126
नद · nad · s.m.
(old H.) = nād, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1126
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a river (if thought of as male ifc. -nadam; cf. nadī), &c.
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Dictionary citations
nada m. a roarer, bellower, thunderer, crier, neigher &c. (as a cloud, horse, bull, met. a man, i, 179, 4), RV.
N. of RV. viii, 58, 2 (beginning with nadam), ŚBr.; ŚāṅkhŚr.
a river (if thought of as male ifc. ind (-nadam). ; cf. nadī), Mn.; MBh. &c.
= naḍa, reed, RV. i, 32, 8
(accord. to some also, ‘the penis’).
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