As a deity name
Name 360 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 807 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 894 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 412 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
अक्षर · akshar · s.m.
Letter (of the Alphabet); syllable — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 66
अक्षर · masculine
a male given name, Akshar or Axar, from Sanskrit
अक्षर · masculine
letter, character (of an alphabet); syllable; handwriting
Śabdasāgara also records: अच्युत । स्थिर । अविनाशी । नित्य · क्रियाशून्य
Cited formation "अक्षर" is अ- + क्षर: क्षर means "Melting away, perishing, perishable", 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 "अक्षर" is अ- + क्षर: क्षर means "Melting away, perishing, perishable", 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; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Indo-Iranian *a- Sanskrit अ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰer- Proto-Indo-Aryan *gẓʰar- Sanskrit क्षर् (kṣar) Proto-Indo-European *-os Sanskrit -अ (-a) Sanskrit क्षर (kṣara) Sanskrit अ॒क्षर॑ (akṣára)bor. Hindi…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
imperishable
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "akṣara" is the vocative of "akṣarā" — 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-kṣara mfn. imperishable
unalterable
a-kṣara m. a sword, L.
Śiva, L.
Viṣṇu, L.
a-kṣarā f. See akṣarā below
akṣarā f. (cf. a-kṣara n. above), word, speech, RV.
Alternative readings
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