As a deity name
Name 11 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 261 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 222 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
कान्ति · kānti · s.f.
Loveliness, beauty; personal decoration or embellishment; splendour, lustre; gloss — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 806
कांति · feminine
loveliness, beauty, personal decoration or embellishment, splendour, lustre, gloss
कान्ति · feminine
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कान्ति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कान्ति (kānti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kānti f. desire, wish, L.
loveliness, beauty, splendour, female beauty, personal decoration or embellishment, Nal.; Śak.; Megh.; Pañcat.; Suśr.; Kathās.
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
desire, wish
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (14)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kānti" is the vocative of "kāntī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
kānti f. desire, wish, L.
loveliness, beauty, splendour, female beauty, personal decoration or embellishment, Nal.; Śak.; Megh.; Pañcat.; Suśr.; Kathās.
a lovely colour, brightness (especially of the moon), Kathās.
(ifc. f. ī), Caurap.
(in rhetoric) beauty enhanced by love, Vām. iii, 1, 22; xxii, 14; Sāh.
kāntī f. N. of a town.
Alternative readings
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