Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“hell”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“hell”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
वीचि · noun · feminine
लहर । तरंग · बीच की खाली जगह । अवकाश · सुख । आनंद विश्रांति — Śabdasāgara
वीचि · vīći · s.m.
& f. A wave; ripple — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1208
वीचि · feminine
a wave
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वीचि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वीचि (vī́ci). Doublet of बीच (bīc, “middle”), which also derived from the Sanskrit root *व्यञ्च् (*vyañc).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vīci f. (prob. fr. vi + 2. añc) going or leading aside or astray, aberration, deceit, seduction, RV. x, 10, 6
also m. (L.) and f(ī). (ifc. ˚ci, or ˚cika) a wave, ripple, Kāv.; VarBṛS. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
going or leading aside or astray, aberration, deceit, seduction
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Dictionary citations
vīci f. (prob. fr. vi + 2. añc) going or leading aside or astray, aberration, deceit, seduction, RV. x, 10, 6
also m. (L.) and f(ī). (ifc. ˚ci, or ˚cika) a wave, ripple, Kāv.; VarBṛS. &c.
‘wave’ as N. of a subdivision of a chapter (called pravāha, ‘river’), Sadukt.
(prob. for a-vīci) a partic. hell, R. (L. also = sukha, avakāśa, svalpa, alpa, āli, kiraṇa).
vīci mf. (-ciḥ-ciḥ or -cī) 1 A wave. 2 A small or rippling wave. 3 Pleasure, delight, happiness. 4 Leisure, interval, rest. 5 A ray of light. 6 Small, little. E. veñ to weave, Uṇādi aff. īci, and the radical vowel rejected.
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