As a deity name
Name 817 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 545 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
गुप्त · adj
छिपा हुआ । पोशीदा · गूढ़ । जिसके जानने में कठिनता हो · रक्षित — Śabdasāgara
गुप्त · noun · masculine
पदवी जिसका व्यवहार वैश्य अपने नाम के साथ करते हैं · एक प्राचीन राजवंश जिसने पहले मगध देश में राज्य स्थापित करके सारे उत्तरीय भारत में अपना साम्राज्य फैलाया — Śabdasāgara
गुप्त · masculine
a surname, Gupta
गुप्त
secret; private; hidden, clandestine; confidential; cryptic; mysterious; relating to the Gupta Empire (an ancient Indian empire which existed from the 4th century CE to the 6th century CE) or its rulers
Platts (p. 895) also records: (f. -ā), & adv. Protected, guarded, preserved
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गुप्त — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Sanskrit गोपा (gopā) Sanskrit गुप् (gup) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-Iranian *-tás Sanskrit -त (-ta) Sanskrit गुप्त (gupta)bor. Hindi गुप्त Borrowed from Sanskrit गुप्त (gupta).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gupta mfn. protected, guarded, preserved, AV. &c.
hidden, concealed, kept secret, secret, Bhartṛ.; Pañcat.; Kathās. &c. (with daṇḍa, a secret fine, fine secretly imposed or exacted, Hit.; cf. gūḍha-d˚)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
protected, guarded, preserved, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gupta" is the vocative of "guptā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "guptā" is derived from "gup" with the tal suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. gup cl. 4. P. ˚pyati (p. Ā. gupyamāna, in Prākṛt guppam˚ Jain.), to become perplexed or confused, Dhātup. xxvi, 123.
2. gup (for pr. &c. See gopaya & ˚pāya, from which the root is derived [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 28 & 31]; perf. jugopa, MBh. &c.; 3. pl. jugupur, RV. vii, 103, 9; AV. &c.; fut. 2nd gopsyati, AV.; ŚBr. vi &c.; fut. 1st goptā or gopitā, Pāṇ. vii, 2, 44; aor. agaupsīt or agopīt, Pāṇ. iii, 1, 50, Kāś.) to guard, defend, protect, preserve (from abl.), RV. vii, 103, 9; AV. &c.; to hide, conceal, Śiś. xvi, 30 (inf. gopitum) : Caus. gopayati &c. See ss.vv. gopaya and ˚pāya: Desid. Ā. jugupsate (Pāṇ. iii, 1, 5; ep. also P. ˚ti) to seek to defend one's self from (abl.), be on one's guard (cf. i, 4, 24, Vārtt. 1), ŚāṅkhGṛ. iv, 12; Gobh.; ChUp. v, 10, 8; to beware of, shun, avoid, detest, spurn, despise (with acc.), Mn.; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to feel offended or hurt, MBh. i, 6375; iii, 1934 : Desid. of Desid. jugupsiṣate, Pāṇ. iii, 1, 7, Vārtt. 15, Pat.; vi, 1, 9, Kāś.
guptā (ā), f. a married woman who withdraws from her lover's endearments, L.
Mucuna pruritus, Suśr. iv, 26, 33; vi, 46, 21 (˚pta)
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gupta mfn. protected, guarded, preserved, AV. &c.
hidden, concealed, kept secret, secret, Bhartṛ.; Pañcat.; Kathās. &c. (with daṇḍa, a secret fine, fine secretly imposed or exacted, Hit.; cf. gūḍha-d˚)
= saṃgata (? joined, combined), W.
gupta (as), m. (Pāṇ. vi, 1, 205, Kāś.) N. of several men belonging to the Vaiśya caste (PārGṛ. i, 17; cf. RTL. p. 358), especially of the founder of the renowned Gupta dynasty in which the names of the sovereigns generally end in gupta (cf. candra-, samudra-, skanda-; gupta is also often found ifc. in names of the Vaiśya class)
gupta m. (also) the era named after the Gupta dynasty (beginning, A.D. 319; hence the Gupta year 165 corresponds to, A.D. 484-85; in later times the years are called valabhī-saṃvat from the rulers of Valabhi, and the era is spoken of as the Gupta-Valabhi era).
guptā (ā), f. a married woman who withdraws from her lover's endearments, L.
Mucuna pruritus, Suśr. iv, 26, 33; vi, 46, 21 (˚pta)
1. gup cl. 4. P. ˚pyati (p. Ā. gupyamāna, in Prākṛt guppam˚ Jain.), to become perplexed or confused, Dhātup. xxvi, 123.
2. gup (for pr. &c. See gopaya & ˚pāya, from which the root is derived [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 28 & 31]; perf. jugopa, MBh. &c.; 3. pl. jugupur, RV. vii, 103, 9; AV. &c.; fut. 2nd gopsyati, AV.; ŚBr. vi &c.; fut. 1st goptā or gopitā, Pāṇ. vii, 2, 44; aor. agaupsīt or agopīt, Pāṇ. iii, 1, 50, Kāś.) to guard, defend, protect, preserve (from abl.), RV. vii, 103, 9; AV. &c.; to hide, conceal, Śiś. xvi, 30 (inf. gopitum) : Caus. gopayati &c. See ss.vv. gopaya and ˚pāya: Desid. Ā. jugupsate (Pāṇ. iii, 1, 5; ep. also P. ˚ti) to seek to defend one's self from (abl.), be on one's guard (cf. i, 4, 24, Vārtt. 1), ŚāṅkhGṛ. iv, 12; Gobh.; ChUp. v, 10, 8; to beware of, shun, avoid, detest, spurn, despise (with acc.), Mn.; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to feel offended or hurt, MBh. i, 6375; iii, 1934 : Desid. of Desid. jugupsiṣate, Pāṇ. iii, 1, 7, Vārtt. 15, Pat.; vi, 1, 9, Kāś.
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