As a deity name
Name 526 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 681 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 871 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 745 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
अचल · masculine
a male given name, Achal, from Sanskrit
अचल · masculine
mountain, hill
Śabdasāgara also records: जो न चले । स्थिर । जो न हिले । ठहरा हुआ । निश्चल · सब दिन रहनेवाला । चिरस्थायी
Platts (p. 26) also records: Not moving; incapable of moving
Cited formation "अचल" is अ- + चल: चल means "moving; trembling", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अचल" is अ- + चल: चल means "moving; trembling", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अचल — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अचल (acala).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a-cala mf(ā)n. not moving, immovable
a-cala m. a mountain, rock
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a mountain, rock
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "acala" is the vocative of "acalā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
a-cala mf(ā)n. not moving, immovable
a-cala m. a mountain, rock
a bolt or pin
the number seven
N. of Śiva and of the first of the nine deified persons, called ‘white Balas’ among the Jainas
a-calā f. the earth
one of the ten degrees which are to be ascended by a Bodhisattva before becoming a Buddha.
Alternative readings
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