As a Hindi name
भारत · noun · masculine
महाभारत का पूर्वरूप वा मूल जो २४००० श्लोकों का था । वि॰ दे॰ 'महाभारत' · एक भूभाग (देश= वर्ष) का नाम । यह पुराणानुसार जंबु द्वीप के नौ वर्षों के अंतर्गत है । वि॰ दे॰ 'भारतवर्ष' — Śabdasāgara
भारत · masculine
India (a country in South Asia); India (a region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent)
Platts (p. 178) also records: Descended from Bharat
Cited formation "भारत" is भार + -त: भार means "burden, load, weight", and the suffix -त forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(16) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "भारत" is भारना + -त: भारना means "स॰", and the suffix -त forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(16) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi भारत — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit भारत (bhārata).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
bhārata mf(ī)n. descended from Bharata or the Bharatas (applied to Agni either ‘sprung from the priests called Bh˚s’ or ‘bearer of the oblation’), RV. &c. &c.
belonging or relating to the Bharatas (with yuddha n. saṃgrāma m. samara m. samiti f. the war or battle of the Bh˚s; with or scil. ākhyāna n. with itihāsa m. and kathā f. the story of the Bh˚s, the history or narrative of their war; with or scil. maṇḍala n. or varṣa n. ‘king Bh˚s's realm’ i.e. India), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
descended from Bharata or the Bharatas (applied to Agni either ‘sprung from the priests called Bh˚s’ or ‘bearer of the oblation’), &c. &c.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
bhārata mf(ī)n. descended from Bharata or the Bharatas (applied to Agni either ‘sprung from the priests called Bh˚s’ or ‘bearer of the oblation’), RV. &c. &c.
belonging or relating to the Bharatas (with yuddha n. saṃgrāma m. samara m. samiti f. the war or battle of the Bh˚s; with or scil. ākhyāna n. with itihāsa m. and kathā f. the story of the Bh˚s, the history or narrative of their war; with or scil. maṇḍala n. or varṣa n. ‘king Bh˚s's realm’ i.e. India), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
inhabiting Bh˚ i.e. India, BhP.
bhārata m. a descendant of Bharata (also in pl. for bharatās), RV. &c. &c.
(with aśva-medha), N. of the author of RV. v, 27
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