As a Hindi name
फाल्गुनी · noun · feminine
फाल्गुन मास की पूर्णिमा । २ पूर्बा पाल्गुनी और उत्तरा फाल्गुनी नक्षत्र — Śabdasāgara
फाल्गुनी · phālgunī · s.f.
The day of full moon in the month phālgun (on which the Holī or great vernal festival of the Hindūs is celebrated) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 283
Cited formation "फाल्गुनी" is फाल्गुन + -ई: फाल्गुन means "Phalguna (twelfth month of the Hindu lunar calendar)", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "फाल्गुनी" is फाल्गुन + -ई: फाल्गुन means "Phalguna (twelfth month of the Hindu lunar calendar)", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "फाल्गुनी" is फाल्गुन + -ई: फाल्गुन means "Phalguna (twelfth month of the Hindu lunar calendar)", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the lunar mansion Phalgunī (q.v.)
Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "phālgunī" is the nominative dual of "phālguni" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "phālgunī" is the feminine form of "phālguna" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
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Dictionary citations
phālgunī (ī), f., see below
phālgunī f. the lunar mansion Phalgunī (q.v.), Hariv.; R.; MārkP.
= -paurṇamāsī, GṛŚrS.
phālgunī The full-moon day of the month phālguna; ˚bhavaḥ an epithet of the planet Jupiter.
phālguni m. patr. fr. phālguna (= arjuna), MBh.
phālguna mf(ī)n. relating to the Nakṣatra Phalgunī, ŚBr.; ŚrS.
born under the N˚ Ph˚, Pāṇ. iv, 3, 34 (v.l.)
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