As a Hindi name
वाणिनी · noun · feminine
नर्तकी · सत्त · श्रृंगार- प्रिय और स्वेच्छाचारिणो औरत (लाक्ष॰) — Śabdasāgara
वाणिनी · vāṇinī · s.f.
A sharp or clever woman, an intriguing woman — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1177
Cited formation "वाणिनी" is वाणि + -नी: वाणि means "Weaving", 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
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
an actress, dancer
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vāṇinī" is the vocative dual of "vāṇi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vāṇinī" is the feminine form of "vāṇin" — the same word with the feminine ending, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
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Dictionary citations
vāṇinī f. an actress, dancer, L.
a clever or intriguing woman, Hcar.
an intoxicated woman, R.
N. of two metres, Ked.; Col.
vāṇinī 1 A clever or intriguing woman. 2 A dancing girl, an actress. 3 A drunken woman (literally or figuratively), an amorous and wanton woman; R. 6. 75.
vāṇi f. (only L.; cf. 1. 2. vāṇī) weaving
a weaver's loom
vāṇin mfn. (cf. bāṇin) speaking, W.
vāṇin mfn. (-ṇī-ṇinī-ṇi) 1 Having an arrow. 2 Speaking. f. (-nī) 1 A sharp or clever woman, an intriguing woman. 2 An actress, a dancer, a Nāc girl. 3 A furious woman, one literally or figuratively intoxicated. E. vāṇa an arrow, or vāṇi speech, ini and ṅīp affs.
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