As a deity name
Name 837 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 31 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 400 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 596 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
As a Hindi name
अनादि · adj
जिसका आदि न हो । जो सब दिन से हो । जिसके आरंभ का कोई काल या स्थान हो । स्थान और काल से आबद्ध — Śabdasāgara
अनादि · an-ādi · adj.
Without beginning; eternal; immemorial; unborn, uncreated — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 84
अनादि
beginningless, eternal
Cited formation "अनादि" is अ- + नादि: नादि means "शब्द करनेवाला", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "अनादि" is अ- + नादि: नादि means "शब्द करनेवाला", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अनादि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अनादि (anādi). By surface analysis, अन्- (an-) + आदि (ādi).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
an-ādi mfn. having no beginning, existing from eternity.
an-ādi ind. perpetually, incessantly, Naiṣ.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
having no beginning, existing from eternity.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "anādi" is the vocative of "anādin" — 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
an-ādi mfn. having no beginning, existing from eternity.
an-ādi ind. perpetually, incessantly, Naiṣ.
anādi a. [ādiḥ kāraṇaṃ pūrvakālo vā nāsti yasya saḥ] Having no beginning, eternal, existing from eternity, epithet of parameśvara; jagadādiranādistvaṃ Ku. 2. 9; anādirādirgoviṃdaḥ sarvakāraṇakāraṇaṃ; also of hiraṇyagarbha. Comp. — anaṃta, — aṃta a. without beginning and end; eternal. — (taḥ) N. of Śiva. — nidhana a. having neither beginning nor end, eternal. — madhyāṃta a. having no beginning, middle or end; eternal.
anādi mfn. (-diḥ-diḥ-di) Eternal, without any beginning, unborn, uncreate. E. an neg. ādi beginning.
a-nādin mfn. not sounding.
Alternative readings
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