As a deity name
Name 222 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
नेता · noun · masculine
पीछे ले चलनेवाला । अगुआ । नायक । सरदार · प्रभु । स्वामी । मालिक · काम को चलानेवाला । निर्वाहक । प्रवर्तक — Śabdasāgara
नेता · noun · masculine
मथानी की रस्सी — Śabdasāgara
नेता · netā · s.m.
(f. -trī), A leader, guide, conductor; a chief, master, owner — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1165
नेता · masculine
leader; politician
Cited formation "नेता" is नेत + -आ: नेत means "ठहराव । निर्धारण", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "नेता" is नेत + -आ: नेत means "ठहराव । निर्धारण", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नेता — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit नेता (netā), nominative singular of नेतृ (netṛ, “leader”), from the root नी (nī, “to lead, to guide”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
leader, guide, conductor (with gen. or ifc.), &c. &c.
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested members (member itA unglossed)Multiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "netā" is the nominative of "netṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
netṛ &c. See p. 568, col. 3.
netṛ mfn. leading, guiding, one who leads or will lead, RV. x, 26, 5
Alternative readings
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