As a deity name
Name 948 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 51 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 70 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 104 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
देवी · noun · feminine
देवता की स्त्री । देवपत्नी · दुर्गा · वह रानी जिसका राजा के साथ विवाह हुआ हो । पटरानी — Śabdasāgara
देवी · noun · masculine
जुआडी़ । वह जो द्यूत खेलता हो — Śabdasāgara
देवी · devī · s.f.
A female deity, a goddess; the wife of a deity, (especially) Durgā or Bhawānī (wife of Śiva) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 561
देवी
female deity, goddess; lady
Cited formation "देवी" is देव + -ई: देव means "deity, god, deva", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "देवी" is देवना + -ई: देवना means "= donā or daunā, q.v", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi देवी — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit देवी (devī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
devī (ī), f. See s.v.
devi- and devī-, see devī.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a female deity, goddess, &c. (e.g. Uṣas, Sarasvatī, Sāvitrī, the wife of Brahmā, Durgā, the wife of Śiva, &c.; the 4 goddesses of Buddhists are Rocanī, Māmakī, Pāṇḍurā and Tārā, )
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "devī" is the nominative of "devin" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
M1 · same meaning "devī" is the feminine form of "deva" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
devī (ī), f. See s.v.
devi- and devī-, see devī.
devī f. (cf. deva) a female deity, goddess, RV.; AitBr.; MBh. &c. (e.g. Uṣas, RV. vii, 75, 5; Sarasvatī, v, 41, 17; Sāvitrī, the wife of Brahmā, MBh.; Durgā, the wife of Śiva, MBh.; Hariv.; Kāv. &c.; the 4 goddesses of Buddhists are Rocanī, Māmakī, Pāṇḍurā and Tārā, Dharmas. iv)
N. of nymph beloved by the Sun, L.
of an Apsaras, MBh. i, 4818
devin mfn. gambling, a gambler, MBh. (cf. akṣa-, durdyūta-, sādhu-).
devitṛ, devin n. A gamester.
deva mf(ī)n. (fr. 3. div) heavenly, divine (also said of terrestrial things of high excellence), RV.; AV.; VS.; ŚBr. (superl. m. deva-tama, RV. iv, 22, 3 &c.; f. devi-tamā, ii, 41, 16)
deva m. (according to Pāṇ. iii, 3, 120 deva) a deity, god, RV. &c. &c.
Alternative readings
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