As a deity name
Name 309 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
मानना
to accept, agree; to acknowledge; to suppose, imagine; to respect, accept one's authority
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit मन्यते — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Hindi verb set मानना (mānnā) मनाना (manānā) मनवाना (manvānā) Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *mn̥yétor Proto-Indo-Iranian *mányatay Proto-Indo-Aryan *mányatay Sanskrit मन्यते (manyate) Prakrit 𑀫𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀇 (maṇṇaï) Hindi मानना I…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a disdainful or sulky woman
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "māninyai" is the dative of "māninī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "māninyai" is the dative of "mānin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
māninī f. a disdainful or sulky woman, Kāv.
(ifc.) the wife of (see madhu-māninī lit. ‘highly esteeming her husband’)
1. mānin mfn. (fr. √ man or fr. 1. māna) thinking, being of opinion, KaṭhUp.
high-minded, haughty, proud towards (prati) or of (-tas), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
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