As a Hindi name
माघ · noun · masculine
ग्यारहवाँ चांद्र मास जो पूस के बाद और फागुन से पहले पड़ता है · संस्कृत के एक प्रसिद्ध कवि का नाम · उपर्युक्त कवि का बनाया हुआ एक प्रसिद्ध काव्यग्रंथ जिसमें कृष्ण द्वारा शिशुपाल का वध वर्णन किया गया है — Śabdasāgara
माघ · noun · masculine
कुंद का फूल — Śabdasāgara
माघ · māgha · s.m.
Name of the tenth Hindū month (corresponding to Jan.-Feb.), the full moon of which is near the constellation Maghā or α Leonis (Regulus) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 982
माघ · masculine
Magha (eleventh month of the Hindu lunar calendar)
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi माघ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit माघ (māgha)” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
māgha mf(ī)n. relating to the constellation Maghā, ŚārṅgS.; MBh.
māgha m. (scil. māsa) the month Māgha (which has its full moon in the const˚ M˚, and corresponds to our January-February), ŚBr. &c. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the month Māgha (which has its full moon in the const˚ M˚, and corresponds to our January-February), &c. &c.
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Dictionary citations
māgha mf(ī)n. relating to the constellation Maghā, ŚārṅgS.; MBh.
māgha m. (scil. māsa) the month Māgha (which has its full moon in the const˚ M˚, and corresponds to our January-February), ŚBr. &c. &c.
N. of a poet (son of Dattaka and grandson of Suprabha-deva, author of the Śiśupāla-vadha, hence called Māgha-kāvya; cf. IW. 392 n. 2)
of a merchant, Vīrac.
māgha m. (-ghaḥ) 1 One of the months of the Hindu year, (January-February.) 2 A poet, the author of the ŚIŚUPĀLA Badha, or as it is named after him the Māgha Kāvya, one of the great profane poems of Hindu literature. f. (-ghī) A potherb, (Hingtsha repens.) E. maghā the asterism, in which the moon is full this month, and aṇ aff.
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