As a deity name
Name 67 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 80 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 871 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 159 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
अव्यय · adj
जो विकार को प्राप्त न हो । सदा एकरस रहनेवाला । अक्षय · नित्य । आदि-अंत-रहित · परिणाम- रहित । विकार-रहित — Śabdasāgara
अव्यय · noun · masculine
व्याकरण में वह जिसका सब लिंगो, सब विभक्तियों और सब वचनों में समान रूप से प्रयोग हो · परब्रह्म · शिव — Śabdasāgara
अव्यय · avyaya · adj.
Not liable to change; unperishable, immutable, eternal; unwasted; economical, parsimonious — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 109
Cited formation "अव्यय" is अ- + व्यय: व्यय means "expenditure, spending", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अव्यय" is अ- + व्यय: व्यय means "expenditure, spending", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a member or corporeal part of an organized body
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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.
Dictionary citations
1. avyaya or rarely avyaya [only RV. viii, 97, 2 and ix, 86, 34] mfn. (avi) made of sheep's skin (as the woollen Soma strainer), RV.
belonging to or consisting of sheep, RV. viii, 97, 2.
2. a-vyaya mf(ā)n. not liable to change, imperishable, undecaying, Up.; Mn. &c.
‘not spending’, parsimonious
a-vyaya m. N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva, L.
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