As a deity name
Name 447 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 200 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 1001 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 109 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
गायत्री · noun · masculine
[स्त्री॰ गायत्रिणी] · खैर का पेड़ · उदगाता । साम का गायक — Śabdasāgara
गायत्री · noun · feminine
एक वैदिक छंद का नाम । विसेष—यह छंद तीन चरणों का होता है और प्रत्येक चरण में आठ—आठ अक्षर होते हैं । इसके आर्षी दैवी, आसुरी, प्राजापत्या, याजुषी, साम्नी, आर्ची और ब्रह्मी आठ भेद हैं, जिनमें क्रमशः २४, १, १५, ८, ६, १२, १८ और ३६ वर्ण होते हैं । प्रत्येक भेद के पिपीलिका, मध्य, निचृत्, यवमध्या भूरिक, विराट और स्वराट आदि अनेक भेद होते हैं · एक पवित्र मंत्र का नाम जिसे सावित्री भी कहते हैं · खैर — Śabdasāgara
गायत्री · gāyatrī · s.m.
(f. -iṇī), One who sings hymns; a singer — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 894
गायत्री · gāyatrī · s.f.
Name of a Vedic metre of twenty-four syllables (generally arranged as a triplet of three divisions of eight syllables each); a hymn composed in this metre — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 894
गायत्री · feminine
Gayatri; a Goddess, the personification of the Gayatri Mantra and the manifestation of Saraswati; the most sacred mantra of the Vedas, dedicated to the solar deity Savitr; a female given name, Gayatri, from Sanskrit
गायत्री · feminine
a Vedic meter consisting of three pādas of eight syllables each
Cited formation "गायत्री" is गायत्र + -ई: गायत्र means "[स्त्री॰ गायत्री] गायत्री छंद", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "गायत्री" is गायत्र + -ई: गायत्र means "[स्त्री॰ गायत्री] गायत्री छंद", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गायत्रिन् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit गायत्रिन् (gāyatrin).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gāyatrin m. one who sings hymns, RV. i, 10, 1 (MBh. xii, 10352)
(= ˚trī) Acacia Catechu, L.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the Gāyatrī (i.e.; &c.; this is a very sacred verse repeated by every Brāhman at his morning and evening devotions; from being addressed to Savitṛ or the Sun as generator, it is al…
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M1 · same meaning "gāyatrī" is the nominative of "gāyatrin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "gāyatrī" is the feminine form of "gāyatra" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
gāyatrī (ī), f. an ancient metre of twenty-four syllables (variously arranged, but generally as a triplet of eight syllables each), any hymn composed in the Gāyatrī metre, RV. x, 14, 16 & 130, 4; VS.; AV. &c.
the Gāyatrī (i.e. RV. iii, 62, 10; tat savitur vareṇyam bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt, ŚBr. xiv; ŚāṅkhGṛ.; MBh. &c.; this is a very sacred verse repeated by every Brāhman at his morning and evening devotions; from being addressed to Savitṛ or the Sun as generator, it is also called Sāvitrī; cf. RTL. pp. 19; 342; 361; 403; the Gāyatrī verse is personified as a goddess, the wife of Brahmā and mother of the four Vedas, Hariv. 11666 ff.; it is often mentioned in connection with the Amṛta, both together constituting as it were the essence and type of sacred hymns in general, AV.; the Gāyatrī personified is also considered as the mother of the first three classes in their capacity of twice-born, W.; cf. RTL. pp. 200 f.; some other verse [perhaps, RV. x, 9, 1] is denoted by Gāyatrī, Suśr. vi, 28, 7; with Tāntrikas a number of mystical verses are called Gāyatrīs, and each deity has one in particular)
N. of Durgā, MatsyaP.; Kathās. liii, 172
Acacia Catechu, L.
gāyatrī f. of ˚tra, q.v.
gāyatrin m. one who sings hymns, RV. i, 10, 1 (MBh. xii, 10352)
(= ˚trī) Acacia Catechu, L.
gāyatra m. n. a song, hymn, RV.; VS. xi, 8; ChUp. ii, 11, 1
gāyatra n. a hymn composed in the Gāyatrī metre, RV.
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