As a deity name
Name 376 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 539 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 930 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 179 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
As a Hindi name
अनन्त · an-ant · adj.
Endless, boundless, infinite, eternal — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 99
अनन्त · masculine
a male given name, Anant, from Sanskrit
अनन्त
endless, boundless, eternal, infinite
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अनन्त — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अनन्त (ananta)” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
an-anta mf(ā)n. endless, boundless, eternal, infinite
an-anta (as), m. N. of Viṣṇu
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
endless, boundless, eternal, infinite
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ananta" is the vocative of "anantā" — 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-anta mf(ā)n. endless, boundless, eternal, infinite
an-anta (as), m. N. of Viṣṇu
of Śeṣa (the snake-god)
of Śeṣa's brother Vāsuki
of Kṛṣṇa
an-antā f. the earth
the number one
Alternative readings
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