Advaita Name Meaning — What the Dictionaries Record

अद्वैत advaita

girl / boy / neuter 3 syllables SLP1 advEta

Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“destitute”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.

As a deity name

Name 368 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha

Name 181 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages

As a Hindi name

अद्वैत · masculine

advaita vedanta (a branch of Hinduism); a male given name, Advait, from Sanskrit

अद्वैत · masculine

absolute oneness, one without a second, non-duality; monism

Śabdasāgara also records: द्धितीयरहित । एकाकी । अकेला । एक · अनुपम । बेजाड़

Platts (p. 33) also records: Peerless, &c. = adwitīya, q.v

Cited formation "अद्वैत" is अ- + द्वैत: द्वैत means "Duality, doubling, the being doubled, duplication", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago

Cited formation "अद्वैत" is अ- + द्वैत: द्वैत means "Duality, doubling, the being doubled, duplication", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago

a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अद्वैत — per Wiktionary’s etymology record

“Borrowed from Sanskrit अद्वैत (ádvaita, “not dual”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record

The Sanskrit parent — अद्वैत (tatsama)

a-dvaita mfn. destitute of duality, having no duplicate, ŚBr. xiv, &c.

peerless

As a Sanskrit word

non-duality

Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)

Why this matches what you typed

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Gender counterpart

The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.