As a deity name
Name 375 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 52 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
As a Hindi name
आधार · noun · masculine
आश्रय । कहारा । अवलंब । जैसे,— (क) यह छत चार खंभों के आधार पर है । (ख) वह चार दिन पलों के ही आधार पर रह गया · व्याकरण में अधिकरण कारक · थाला । आबबाल — Śabdasāgara
आधार · ādhār · s.m.
Support, prop, stay; stand, pedestal, base (of a geom. fig., &c., syn. bhūmi and neʼo); supporter, patron; subsistence, nourishment, food, aliment — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 34
आधार · masculine
basis, foundation
Cited formation "आधार" is आ- + धार: धार means "flow, current, stream, channel (of a river)", and the prefix आ- forms until; contrary. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(8) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi आधार — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit आधार (ādhāra).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ā-dhāra &c. See under ā-√ dhṛ.
ā-dhāra as, m. support, prop, stay, substratum
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
as, support, prop, stay, substratum
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Dictionary citations
ā-dhāra &c. See under ā-√ dhṛ.
ā-dhāra as, m. support, prop, stay, substratum
the power of sustaining, or the support given, aid, patronage, AV. xii, 3, 48; MBh.; Suśr.; Vedāntas. &c.
that which contains (a fluid &c.), a vessel, receptacle, Yājñ.; Suśr.; Pañcat. &c.
a dike, dam, Ragh.
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