As a deity name
Name 765 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 331 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
माधवी · noun · masculine
प्रसिद्ध लता जिसमें इसी नाम के प्रसिद्ध सुंगधित फूल लगते हैं · ओड़व जाति की एक रागिनी जिसमें गांधार और धैवत वर्जित हैं · सवैया छंद का एक भेद — Śabdasāgara
माधवी · mādhavī · s.f.
Honey-sugar; clayed or candied sugar — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 979
माधवी · feminine
a female given name, Madhvi or Madhavi, from Sanskrit
माधवी
creeper, vine; wife of Madhav; an epithet of the goddess Durga and Lakshmi; river Drishadvati
Cited formation "माधवी" is माधव + -ई: माधव means "a male given name, Madhav, from Sanskrit", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "माधवी" is माधव + -ई: माधव means "a male given name, Madhav, from Sanskrit", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi माधवी — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit माधवी (mādhavī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
mādhavī (ī), f. See below
mādhavī f. the earth (also with devī), R.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
honey-sugar
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M1 · same meaning "mādhavī" is the nominative dual of "mādhavi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "mādhavī" is the feminine form of "mādhava" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
mādhavī (ī), f. See below
mādhavī f. the earth (also with devī), R.
‘spring-flower’, Gaertnera Racemosa, Kālid.; BhP.
honey-sugar, L.
an intoxicating drink, L.
mādhavi m. patr. of Pradyumna, VP.
mādhava mf(ī)n. (fr. madhu; f(ā). only in mādhavā [= madhavyā] tanūḥ, Pāṇ. iv, 4, 129, Sch.) relating to spring, vernal, Hariv.; Vikr.; Kathās.
belonging or peculiar to the descendants of Madhu i.e. the Yādavas, Hariv.
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