As a Hindi name
वाणि · noun · feminine
बुनना (कपड़ा आदि) · करगह । करघा · सरस्वती — Śabdasāgara
वाणि · vāṇi · s.f.
Weaving — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1177
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
weaving
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vāṇi" is the vocative of "vāṇī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
vāṇi f. (only L.; cf. 1. 2. vāṇī) weaving
a weaver's loom
voice, speech
a species of metre
a cloud
vāṇī (ī), f. See below
1. vāṇī f. sound, voice, music (pl. a choir of musicians or singers), RV. (the sapta vāṇīs are referred by the Comms. to the seven metres or to the seven notes of the gamut &c.)
Alternative readings
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