As a deity name
Name 488 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 775 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
As a Hindi name
नाग · noun · masculine
सर्प । साँप · कद्रू से उत्पन्न कश्यप की संतान जिनका स्थान पाताल लिखा गया है · एक देश का नाम — Śabdasāgara
नाग · noun · masculine
अश्लेषा नक्षत्र — Śabdasāgara
नाग · nāg · s.m.
A snake, serpent; the hooded snake, or cobra di capello, Coluber naga (which is regarded as sacred by the Hindūs) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1116
नाग · masculine
male serpent; Indian cobra, Naja naja; naga
Cited formation "नाग" is ना- + ग: ग means "the third consonant in Hindi", and the prefix ना- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(2) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नाग — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नाग (nāga).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
nāga m. (prob. neither fr. na-ga nor fr. nagna) a snake, (esp.) Coluber Naga, ŚBr.; MBh. &c.
(f. ī, Suparṇ.) a Nāga or serpent-demon (the race of Kadru or Su-rasā inhabiting the waters or the city Bhoga-vatī under the earth; they are supposed to have a human face with serpent-like lower extremities [see esp. Nāg. v, 17; RTL. 233 &c.]; their kings are Śeṣa, Vāsuki, and Takṣaka, ib. 323; 7 or 8 of the Nāgas are particularly mentioned, MBh.; Kāv. &c.; with Buddhists they are also represented as ordinary men, MWB. 220)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a Nāga or serpent-demon (the race of Kadru or Su-rasā inhabiting the waters or the city Bhoga-vatī under the earth; they are supposed to have a human face with serpent-like lower e…
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nāga m. (prob. neither fr. na-ga nor fr. nagna) a snake, (esp.) Coluber Naga, ŚBr.; MBh. &c.
(f. ī, Suparṇ.) a Nāga or serpent-demon (the race of Kadru or Su-rasā inhabiting the waters or the city Bhoga-vatī under the earth; they are supposed to have a human face with serpent-like lower extremities [see esp. Nāg. v, 17; RTL. 233 &c.]; their kings are Śeṣa, Vāsuki, and Takṣaka, ib. 323; 7 or 8 of the Nāgas are particularly mentioned, MBh.; Kāv. &c.; with Buddhists they are also represented as ordinary men, MWB. 220)
N. of the numbers 7 (Sūryas.) or 8 (Hcat.)
a cruel man, L.
one of the 5 airs of the human body (which is expelled by eructation), Vedāntas.
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