As a deity name
Name 698 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
हवि · noun · masculine
देवता के निमित्त अग्नि में दिया जानेवाला घी, जौ या इसी प्रकार की सामग्री । वह द्रव्य जिसकी आहुति दी जाय । हवन की वस्तु · आज्य । घी (को॰) · जल । पानी (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
हवि · havi · s.m.
= هوس havis, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1243
हवि · masculine
oblation, offering
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi हविस् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit हविः (haviḥ).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
havis n. an oblation or burnt offering, anything offered as an oblation with fire (as clarified butter, milk, Soma, grain; haviṣ √ kṛ, ‘to prepare an oblation’, ‘make into an oblation’), RV. &c. &c.
water, Naigh. i, 12
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
. See under 2. hava.
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M1 · same meaning "havi" is the vocative of "havin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
havin . See under 2. hava.
havin mfn. calling, invoking, AV.
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