As a deity name
Name 80 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 590 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 118 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 230 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
कात्यायनी · noun · feminine
कत गोत्र में उत्पन्न स्त्री · कात्यायन ऋषि की पत्नी · कषाय वस्त्र धारण करनेवाली अधेड विधवा स्त्री — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "कात्यायनी" is कात्यायन + -ई: कात्यायन means "[स्त्री॰ कात्यायनी ]", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "कात्यायनी" is कात्यायन + -ई: कात्यायन means "[स्त्री॰ कात्यायनी ]", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "कात्यायनी" is कात्यायन + -ई: कात्यायन means "[स्त्री॰ कात्यायनी ]", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a middle-aged widow dressed in red clothes
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kātyāyanī" is the feminine form of "kātyāyana" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Dictionary citations
kātyāyanī (ī), f. N. of one of the two wives of Yājñavalkya, ŚBr.
of a Pravrājikā, Kathās.
of Durgā, Hariv.; Lalit.; Prab.
a middle-aged widow dressed in red clothes, L.
kātyāyanī f. of ˚yana, q.v.
kātyāyana m. ‘descendant of Kati’ (see 2. kati), N. of the author of several treatises on ritual, grammar, &c., Hariv. 1461 and 1768; R. ii, 67, 2; VPrāt.; Yājñ. i, 4 (he is also author of the Vārttikas or critical annotations on the aphorisms of Pāṇini, of the Yajur-veda Prātiśākhya, and of the Śrauta-sūtras, and is identified with Vara-ruci, the author of the Prākṛta-prakāśa)
kātyāyana mf(ī)n. composed by Kātyāyana.
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