As a Hindi name
न
not, do not; prohibitive particle (cf. मत (mat)); isn't it?
न
the twentieth consonant of Hindi
Śabdasāgara also records: नक्षत्र संबंधी । जैसे, नाक्षत्र दिन । नाक्षत्र मास, नाक्षत्र वर्ष
Platts (p. 1116) also records: A month computed by the moon's passage through the twenty-seven mansions, or a month of thirty days of sixty ghaṛīs each
Cited formation "नाक्षत्र" is ना- + क्षत्र: क्षत्र means "बल", and the prefix ना- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(2) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit न — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit न (na).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. na the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1-39).
2. na ind. not, no, nor, neither, RV. (nā, x, 34, 8) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. Mn. iv, 34; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], uta, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, RV. i, 170, 1; 151, 9; Nal. iii, 24, &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, Mn. ii, 98; Nal. i, 14, &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 ŚBr.; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 ib.; with another na or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. Vām. v, 1, 9] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, Śak. iii, 9; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, Mn. viii, 335; it may also, like a, form compounds, Vām. v, 2, 13 [cf. below])
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a month computed by the moon's passage through the 27 mansions, or of 30 days of 60 Ghaṭīs each
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
nākṣatra mf(ī)n. relating to the Nakṣatras, starry, sidereal, Lāṭy.; Var. &c.
nākṣatra m. astronomer, astrologer, MBh.
nākṣatra n. a month computed by the moon's passage through the 27 mansions, or of 30 days of 60 Ghaṭīs each, W.
nākṣatra a. (trī f.) [nakṣatrāṇāmidaṃ aṇ] Starry, sidereal. — traṃ A month computed by the moon's passage through the 27 lunar mansions, a month of 30 days of sixty Ghaṭīs each; nāḍīṣaṣṭhyā tu nākṣatramahorātraṃ prakīrtitaṃ Sūrya S.
nākṣatra mfn. (-traḥ-trī-traṃ) Relating or belonging to the lunar asterisms. n. (-traṃ) A month, one computed by the moon's passage through the twenty-seven mansions, or of thirty days of sixty Gharis each. E. nakṣatra, and aṇ aff.
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