As a deity name
Name 13 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 225 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
ज्योत्स्ना · noun · feminine
चंद्रमा का प्रकाश । चाँदनी · चाँदनी रात · सफेद फूल की तोरई — Śabdasāgara
ज्योत्स्ना · jyotsnā · s.f.
Moonlight — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 415
ज्योत्स्ना · feminine
a female given name, Jyotsna, from Sanskrit
ज्योत्स्ना · feminine
moonlight, moonshine; splendour, lustre
Cited formation "ज्योत्स्ना" is ज्योत्स्ना + -ना: ज्योत्स्ना means "moonlight, moonshine", and the suffix -ना forms infinitives. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(19) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi ज्योत्स्ना — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ज्योत्स्ना (jyotsnā). Doublet of जोन्ह (jonha), जुन्हाई (junhāī), and जुन्हैया (junhaiyā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
jyotsnā f. (Pāṇ. v, 2, 114) a moonlight night, TBr. ii, 2, 9, 7
moonlight, MBh.; R. &c. (ifc. f(ā). , Kathās. cvii)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a moonlight night
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Dictionary citations
jyotsnā f. (Pāṇ. v, 2, 114) a moonlight night, TBr. ii, 2, 9, 7
moonlight, MBh.; R. &c. (ifc. f(ā). , Kathās. cvii)
pl. light, splendour, BhP. iii, 28, 21
one of Brahmā's bodies, 20, 39;
one of the moon's 16 Kalās, BrahmaP. ii, 15
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