As a deity name
Name 961 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 794 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 994 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 284 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
नारायण · noun · masculine
विष्णु । भगवान । ईश्वर · पूस का महीना · 'अ' अक्षर का नाम — Śabdasāgara
नारायण · nārāyaṇa · s.m.
A name of Vishṇu (considered as the first of living beings, and the dwelling-place of mortals; or as the being who existed before all worlds, and moved on the waters of creation) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1113
नारायण · masculine
Narayana, the god Vishnu
Cited formation "नारायण" is ना- + रायण: रायण means "पीड़ा । दर्द", and the prefix ना- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(2) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नारायण — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit नारायण (nārāyaṇá).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
nārāyaṇa m. (patr. fr. nara, q.v.) the son of the original Man (with whom he is generally associated, e.g. Mn. i, 10; he is identified with Brahmā, ib. 11 with Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, TĀr.; MBh. &c.; the Apsaras Urvaśī is said to have sprung from his thigh, Hariv. 4601; elsewhere he is regarded as a Kaśyapa or Aṅgirasa, also as chief of the Sādhyas, and with Jainas as the 8th of the 9 black Vāsudevas)
the Puruṣa-hymn (RV. x, 90, said to have been composed by N˚), ŚBr.; ŚāṅkhŚr.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the son of the original Man (with whom he is generally associated, e.g.; he is identified with Brahmā, with Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, &c.; the Apsaras Urvaśī is said to have sprung from his…
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nārāyaṇa m. (patr. fr. nara, q.v.) the son of the original Man (with whom he is generally associated, e.g. Mn. i, 10; he is identified with Brahmā, ib. 11 with Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, TĀr.; MBh. &c.; the Apsaras Urvaśī is said to have sprung from his thigh, Hariv. 4601; elsewhere he is regarded as a Kaśyapa or Aṅgirasa, also as chief of the Sādhyas, and with Jainas as the 8th of the 9 black Vāsudevas)
the Puruṣa-hymn (RV. x, 90, said to have been composed by N˚), ŚBr.; ŚāṅkhŚr.
(as synonym of Viṣṇu) N. of the 2nd month (reckoning from Mārgaśīrṣa), Var.
a mystical N. of the letter ā, Up.
N. of a son of Ajā-mila, BhP.
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