As a deity name
Name 559 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 719 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 664 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
ब्रह्म · noun · masculine
एक मात्र नित्य चेतन सता जो जगत् का कारण हे । सत्, चित्, आनंद स्वरुप तत्व जिसके अतिरिक्त और जो कुछ प्रतीत होता है, सब असत्य़ और मिथ्या है · ईश्वर । परमात्मा · आत्मा । चैतन्य । जैसे,—जैसा तुम्हारा ब्रह्म कहे, वैसा करो — Śabdasāgara
ब्रह्म · brahma · s.m.
The Supreme Being, the all pervading Spirit and Soul of the universe, the divine essence and source of all being from which all created things emanate and to which they return, the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 150
ब्रह्म · masculine
Brahman (concept of Hinduism)
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi ब्रह्मन् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
brahman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, RV.; AV.; VS.; TS.
the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), RV.; AV.; Br.; Mn.; Pur.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the one self-existent Spirit, the Absolute
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "brahma" is the vocative of "brahman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. brahma m. a priest (see asura-, ku-, mahābr˚)
brahma n. the one self-existent Spirit, the Absolute, R.
2. brahma in comp. for brahman. — Observe that in the following derivatives the nom. n. (Brahmă) is used for the impersonal Spirit and the nom. m. (Brahmā) for the personal god.
brahma The Supreme Spirit.
brahman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, RV.; AV.; VS.; TS.
the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), RV.; AV.; Br.; Mn.; Pur.
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