As a deity name
Name 823 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 393 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 188 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 188 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
एक
विवाह के पहले वर कन्या के राशिवर्ग के मिलान के लिये नक्षत्रों का एक गण जिसमें ये नक्षत्र होते हैं—अश्विनी, रेवती, पुष्य, स्वाती, हस्त पुनर्वसु, अनुराधा, मृगशिरा और श्रवण · सोन (को॰) · तैंतीस (३३) की संख्या (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
एक · adj
एकाइयों में सबसे छोटी और पहली संख्या । वह संख्या जिससे जाति या समूह में से किसी अकेली वस्तु या व्यक्ति का बोध हो · अकेला । एकता । अद्वितीय । बेजोड़ । अनुपम । जैसे—वह अपने ढंग का एक आदमी है · कोई । अनिश्चित । किसी । जैसे—सबको एक दिन मरना है — Śabdasāgara
एक · ek · adj.
One, single, sole, alone, only, a, an; the same, identical; only one; a certain one — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 114
एक
sole, only; united
एक
one; 1
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit एक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háykas Sanskrit एक (eka) Ashokan Prakrit 𑀏𑀓 (eka) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓 (ĕkka) Apabhramsa एक्क (ekka) Old Hindi एक (eka) ▲ Sanskrit एक (eka)influ. Hindi एक Inherited from Old …” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
eka mfn. (√ i, Uṇ. iii, 43, probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, Pāṇ. i, 1, 27; see Gr. 200), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), RV. &c.
(with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), RV. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "eka" is the vocative of "ekā" — 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
eka mfn. (√ i, Uṇ. iii, 43, probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, Pāṇ. i, 1, 27; see Gr. 200), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), RV. &c.
(with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), RV. &c.
the same, one and the same, identical, ŚBr. v; KātyŚr.; Mn. &c.
one of two or many (eka — eka, eka — dvitīya, the one — the other; esp. pl. eke, some, eke — apare some — others, &c.), ŚBr.; KātyŚr.; MBh.; Hit. &c.
(eka repeated twice, either as a compound [cf. ekaika] or uncompounded, may have the sense ‘one and one’, ‘one by one’, RV. i, 20, 7; 123, 8; v, 52, 17; R.; BhP. &c.)
ekā f. N. of Durgā
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