नप्त्री naptrī
girl 2 syllables SLP1 naptrI

As a deity name

Name 867 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati

As a Hindi name

No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.

As a Sanskrit word

Meaning

granddaughter

Scripturally attested Verified derivation

Why this matches what you typed

M1 · same meaning "naptrī" is the nominative of "naptṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

Dictionary citations

Monier-Williams (1899) · नप्त्री

naptrī (trī), f. granddaughter, SVĀr.; L.

Monier-Williams (1899) · नप्तृ (linked stem)

napāt, naptṛ, m. (the former stem only in the strong cases and earlier lang.; the latter in Class., but acc. naptāram appears in TS. & AitBr.) descendant, offspring, son (in this meaning esp. in RV., e.g. apāṃ n˚, ūrjo n˚, divo n˚, vimuco n˚ &c.); grandson (in later lang. restricted to this sense), RV. &c. &c.; N. of one of the Viśve devās, MBh. xiii, 4362; path of the gods (?), Mahīdh. on VS. xix, 56; granddaughter (?), Uṇ. ii, 96, Sch.;

Monier-Williams (1899) · नप्तृ (linked stem)

napāt, naptṛ, [Prob. neither = na + pat (Uṇ. ii, 96) nor na + pāt (Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75), and of very questionable connection with √ nabh, or nah; cf. Zd. napāt, naptar; Gk. νέποδες, ἀνεψιός; Lat. nepōt-em; Angl.Sax. nefa; HGerm. nëvo, nëve, Neffe.]

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