As a deity name
Name 201 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 292 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 111 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
गोमती · noun · feminine
एक नदी जो शाहजहाँपुर की एक झील से निकलकर सैदपुर के पास गंगा में मिली है । वाशिष्ठी · टिपरा (बंगाल) की एक छोटी नदी · एक देवी जिनका प्रधान स्थान गोमंत पर्वत पर है — Śabdasāgara
गोमती · feminine
A river in northern India, tributary of the Ganga, flowing through Uttar Pradesh.; a female given name, Gomati or Gomti, from Sanskrit
Cited formation "गोमती" is गोम + -ती: गोम means "घोड़ों की एक भँवरी जो नाभि से ऊपर छाती की ओर रहती है । इसे लोग बहुत खराब समझते हैं", and the suffix -ती forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(17) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "गोमती" is गोमता + -ई: गोमता means "मातृतुल्य गोजाति", and the suffix -ई forms feminine of nouns/adjectives in inherent -अ or -आ (replaces the final vowel). CHD Basic Grammar App. II §2 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गोमती — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गोमती (gomatī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
go—matī (go-matī), f. a place abounding in herds of cattle, RV. iv, 21, 4 and v, 61, 19
N. of a village in the north g. palady-adi
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a place abounding in herds of cattle, and
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gomatī" is the vocative dual of "gomat" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "gomat" is derived from "go" with the matup suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
go gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, TBr. iii; TUp.; MBh. iv, 1506; R. ii] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at the end of a Pāda, RV. iv, 1, 19] and [in RV. at the end of Pādas only, cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 57] gonām loc. goṣu) m. an ox f. a cow, (pl.) cattle, kine, herd of cattle, RV. &c. (in comp. before vowels [cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 122 ff.] gav, gava, qq.vv.; cf. also gavām, gavi, gāṃ ss.vv.; gavāṃ vrata, N. of a Sāman; gavāṃ tīrtha, see go t˚; goṣu-√ gam, to set out for a battle [to conquer cows] RV. ii, 25, 4; v, 45, 9; viii, 71, 5)
‘anything coming from or belonging to an ox or cow’, milk (generally pl.), flesh (only pl. RV. x, 16, 7; ‘fat’, Gmn.), skin, hide, leather, strap of leather, bow-string, sinew (RV. x, 27, 22; AV. i, 2, 3), RV.
go—mat (go-), mfn. possessing or containing cattle or cows or herds, rich in cattle, consisting of cattle, RV.; AV.; VS.; MBh. ii, v
containing or mixed with milk, RV.
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Dictionary citations
go—matī (go-matī), f. a place abounding in herds of cattle, RV. iv, 21, 4 and v, 61, 19
N. of a village in the north g. palady-adi
(go-matī), f. N. of a river falling into the Indus, RV. viii, 24, 30 and x, 75, 10
another river falling into the Ganges, MBh. iii, iv (metrically ˚ti, 513), vi, xii, xiii; Hariv.; R. &c.
(with or without vidyā) N. of a Vedic hymn or formula to be repeated during expiation for killing a cow, MBh. xiii; Hcat. i, 7
go—mat (go-), mfn. possessing or containing cattle or cows or herds, rich in cattle, consisting of cattle, RV.; AV.; VS.; MBh. ii, v
containing or mixed with milk, RV.
go gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, TBr. iii; TUp.; MBh. iv, 1506; R. ii] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at the end of a Pāda, RV. iv, 1, 19] and [in RV. at the end of Pādas only, cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 57] gonām loc. goṣu) m. an ox f. a cow, (pl.) cattle, kine, herd of cattle, RV. &c. (in comp. before vowels [cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 122 ff.] gav, gava, qq.vv.; cf. also gavām, gavi, gāṃ ss.vv.; gavāṃ vrata, N. of a Sāman; gavāṃ tīrtha, see go t˚; goṣu-√ gam, to set out for a battle [to conquer cows] RV. ii, 25, 4; v, 45, 9; viii, 71, 5)
‘anything coming from or belonging to an ox or cow’, milk (generally pl.), flesh (only pl. RV. x, 16, 7; ‘fat’, Gmn.), skin, hide, leather, strap of leather, bow-string, sinew (RV. x, 27, 22; AV. i, 2, 3), RV.
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