As a deity name
Name 775 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 877 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
ज्योति · noun · feminine
प्रकाश । उजाला । द्युति · अग्निशिखा । लपट । लौ · अग्नि — Śabdasāgara
ज्योति · jyoti · s.f.
Light, brilliance, lustre, radiance, splendour ( = jot, joti); a sunbeam; flame (of a lamp or candle) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 415
ज्योति · feminine
a female given name, Jyoti, from Sanskrit
ज्योति · feminine
light, shine, lustre; vision, sight
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi ज्योतिस् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ज्योति (jyoti). Doublet of जोत (jot), a tadbhava.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
jyotis n. light (of the sun, dawn, fire, lightning, &c.; also pl.), brightness (of the sky), RV. &c. (trīṇi jyotīṃṣi, light appearing in the 3 worlds, viz. on earth, in the intermediate region, and in the sky or heaven [the last being called uttama, VS. xx; AV. xviii; or uttara, i, 9, l; or tṛtīya, RV. x, 56, 1] VS. viii, 36; AV. ix, 5, 8; MBh. iii; also personified as ‘fire’ on earth, ‘ether or air’ in the intermediate region, and ‘sun’ in the sky, ŚBr. xi, 5, 8, 2; ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 21, 2, &c.; ‘fire, sun and moon’, Bhag. xv, 12)
fire, flash of lightning, Megh.; Śak.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Light, brilliance, lustre, radiance, splendour ( = jot, joti) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
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Dictionary citations
jyoti (only loc. ˚tau) = ˚tis, TāṇḍyaBr. xvi, 10, 2
cf. daśa-, śata-.
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