As a deity name
Name 838 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 932 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
यामिनी · noun · feminine
रात · हलदी · कश्यप की एक स्त्री का नाम — Śabdasāgara
यामिनी · yāminī · s.f.
Night (i.q. jāminī, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1248
यामिनी · feminine
a female given name, Yamini, from Sanskrit
यामिनी · feminine
night
Cited formation "यामिनी" is यामि + -नी: यामि means "See the pop. form jāmī", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi यामिनी — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit यामिनी (yāminī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
yāminī f. (fr. 1. yāma) ‘consisting of watches’, night, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
N. of a daughter of Prahlāda, Kathās.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘consisting of watches’, night, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "yāminī" is the vocative dual of "yāmi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
yāminī f. (fr. 1. yāma) ‘consisting of watches’, night, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
N. of a daughter of Prahlāda, Kathās.
of the wife of Tārkṣa (mother of Śalabha), BhP.
yāminī yāmīra. See p. 850, col. 1.
yāmikā, yāminī 1 Night; savitā vidhavati vidhurapi savitarati dinaṃti yāmi nyaḥ . yāminayaṃte dināni ca sukhaduḥkhavaśīkṛte manasi .. K. P. 10. 2 Turmeric. Comp. — patiḥ 1 the moon. 2 camphor.
1. yāmi (for 2. See p. 851, col. 3) = yāmī; See under 1. yāma.
2. yāmi f. (or ˚mī) (for 1. See p. 850, col. 1) = jāmi (Uṇ. iv, 43, Sch.), a sister, female relation, Mn. iv, 180, 183 (v.l. jāmi), MārkP.
Alternative readings
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