As a deity name
Name 98 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
गुणी · guṇī · adj.
Endowed with good qualities, or merits, or parts; possessed of art or skill; virtuous, excellent, meritorious, worthy; accomplished, skilful, dexterous — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 920
गुणी · masculine
talented, meritorious person
गुणी
talented, gifted, accomplished; virtuous, meritorious, noble; skillful, proficient.
Śabdasāgara also records: गुणवाला । जिसमें कोई गुण हो । जो किसी कला या विद्या में निपुण हो
Cited formation "गुणी" is गुण + -ई: गुण means "quality, condition", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "गुणी" is गुणना + -ई: गुणना means "To praise, laud", 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 गुणिन् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit गुणिन् (guṇin). By surface analysis, गुण (guṇ) + ई (ī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
guṇin mfn. ‘furnished with a string or rope (as a hunter)’ and ‘endowed with good qualities’, ŚārṅgP.; Subh.
containing parts, consisting of parts, Pāṇ. v, 2, 47, Vārtt. 1
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
in comp. for ˚ṇa.
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M1 · same meaning "guṇī" is the nominative of "guṇin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
guṇī in comp. for ˚ṇa.
guṇin mfn. ‘furnished with a string or rope (as a hunter)’ and ‘endowed with good qualities’, ŚārṅgP.; Subh.
containing parts, consisting of parts, Pāṇ. v, 2, 47, Vārtt. 1
Alternative readings
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