As a deity name
Name 71 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 504 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 661 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 58 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
निधि · noun · feminine
गड़ा हुआ खजाना । खजाना · कुबेर के नौ प्रकार के रत्न । ये नौ रत्न ये हैं—पदम, महापद्म, शंख, मकर, कच्छप, मुकुंद, कुंद नील और वर्च्च · समुद्र — Śabdasāgara
निधि · nidhi · s.m.
& f. A place where anything is laid, or deposited, or stored up, &c; a receptacle; storehouse; treasury — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1127
निधि · feminine
a female given name, Nidhi, from Sanskrit
निधि · feminine
fund, reserve of money; treasure, hoard; a Nidhi (one of the nine treasures of Kuvera)
Cited formation "निधि" is नि- + धि: धि means "भांड़ार । आगार", and the prefix नि- forms lacking, without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(4) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi निधि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit निधि (nidhi).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ni-˚dhi m. setting down or serving up (food, &c.), RV. i, 183, 4 &c.
the bottom of the Ukhā, ŚBr.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a place for deposits or storing up, a receptacle (esp. apāṃ nidhi, r˚ of waters, the ocean, sea, also N. of a Sāman; kalānāṃ n˚, the full moon), &c.
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ni-˚dhi m. setting down or serving up (food, &c.), RV. i, 183, 4 &c.
the bottom of the Ukhā, ŚBr.
a place for deposits or storing up, a receptacle (esp. apāṃ nidhi, r˚ of waters, the ocean, sea, also N. of a Sāman; kalānāṃ n˚, the full moon), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
a store, hoard, treasure, RV. &c. &c. (in later language esp. the divine treasures belonging to Kubera, nine of which are enumerated, viz. Padma, Mahāpadma, Śaṅkha, Makara, Kacchapa, Mukunda, Nanda, Nīla and Kharva, they are also personified as attendants either of Kubera or of Lakṣmī; cf. nidhi-datta and -pālita below)
the sea, L.
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