As a deity name
Name 714 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 672 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 194 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 430 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
अर्थ · noun · masculine
शब्द का अभिप्राय । मनुष्य के हृदय का आशय जो शब्द से प्रकट हो । शब्द की शक्ति · अभिप्राय । प्रयोजन । मतलब । जैसे—वह किस अर्थ से यहाँ आया है' (शब्द॰) · काम । इष्ट — Śabdasāgara
अर्थ · arth · s.m.
Object, aim, purpose, intent; cause, motive, reason, account, sake; interest; advantage, profit, benefit, use, utility — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 39
अर्थ · masculine
meaning, purport; sense; wealth, prosperity
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अर्थ॑ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-tHo-m Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hártʰam Sanskrit अर्थ॑ (ártha)lbor. Hindi अर्थ Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अर्थ॑ (ártha), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hártʰam (“matter, object, purpose”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
thing, object (said of the membrum virile, )
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
artha m. n. [in RV. i-ix only n.; in RV. x, six times n. and thrice m.; in later Sanskṛt only m.] aim, purpose (very often artham, arthena, arthāya, and arthe ifc. or with gen. ‘for the sake of, on account of, in behalf of, for’)
cause, motive, reason, Mn. ii, 213, &c.
advantage, use, utility (generally named with kāma and dharma See tri-varga; used in wishing well to another dat. or gen. Pāṇ. ii, 3, 73)
thing, object (said of the membrum virile, ŚBr. xiv)
object of the senses, VarBṛS.
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