As a deity name
Name 619 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 745 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
पति · noun · masculine
किसी वस्तु का मालिक । स्वामी । आधिपति । प्रभु । जैसे, भूमिपति, गृहपति आदि · स्त्री विशेष का विवाहित पुरुष । किसी स्त्री के संबंध में वह पुरुष जिसका उस स्त्री ब्याह हुआ हो । पणिग्राहक । भर्ता । कांत । दूल्हा । शौहर । खाविंद · पाशुपत दर्शन के अनुसार सृष्टि, स्थिति और संहार का वह कारण जिसमें निरतिशय, ज्ञानशक्ति और क्रियाशक्ति हो और ऐश्वर्य से जिसका नित्य संबंध हो । शिव या ईश्वर — Śabdasāgara
पति · noun · feminine
पति । खसम । खाविंद · मालिक । स्वामी । प्रभु — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ पत
पति · pati · s.m.
Master, lord, owner, proprietor, governor; husband — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 223
पति · pati · s.m.
See پت pati, 'Master.' — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 226
पति · masculine
husband; master, lord
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi पति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पति (pati).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. pati m. (cf. √ 1. pat; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. patyā; dat. patye; gen. abl. patyur; loc. patyau; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. Pāṇ. i, 4, 8; 9) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, RV. &c. &c.
a husband, ib. (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p˚ or ˚tuḥ-p˚, Pāṇ. vi, 3, 24; when mfn. f. = m., e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, R. ii, 24, 8, or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, Mn. ix, 68)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a husband, (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p˚ or ˚tuḥ-p˚, when =, e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, )
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Dictionary citations
1. pati m. (cf. √ 1. pat; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. patyā; dat. patye; gen. abl. patyur; loc. patyau; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. Pāṇ. i, 4, 8; 9) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, RV. &c. &c.
a husband, ib. (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p˚ or ˚tuḥ-p˚, Pāṇ. vi, 3, 24; when mfn. f. = m., e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, R. ii, 24, 8, or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, Mn. ix, 68)
one of the 2 entities (with pāśupatas), RTL. 89
a root, L.
pati f. a female possessor, mistress, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 33, Sch.
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