As a deity name
Name 536 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 727 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 836 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 83 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
As a Hindi name
नित्य · adj
जो सब दिन रहे । जिसका कभी नाश न हो । शाश्वत । अविनाशी । त्रिकालव्यापी । उत्पत्ति और विनाशरहित । जैसे,—ईश्वर नित्य है · प्रतिदिन का । रोज का । जैसे, नित्यकर्म — Śabdasāgara
नित्य · ind
प्रतिदिन । रोज रोज । जैसे— वह नित्य यहाँ आता है · सदा । सर्वदा । अनवरत । हमेशा — Śabdasāgara
नित्य · nitya · adj.
Continual, perpetual, constant, uninterrupted, incessant, endless, eternal; invariable, regular, fixed; necessary, obligatory, essential — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1123
नित्य
eternal, everlasting, ceaseless; unchanging, constant
नित्य
continually, perpetually
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नित्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नित्य (nitya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
nitya mf(ā)n. (fr. ni; cf. ni-ja) innate, native, MBh. iii, 13941
one's own (opp. to araṇa), RV.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
continual, perpetual, eternal, &c. &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "nitya" is the vocative of "nityā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
nitya mf(ā)n. (fr. ni; cf. ni-ja) innate, native, MBh. iii, 13941
one's own (opp. to araṇa), RV.
continual, perpetual, eternal, RV. &c. &c.
ifc. constantly dwelling or engaged in, intent upon, devoted or used to (cf. tapo-n˚, dharma-n˚, dhyāna-n˚, śastra-n˚), Mn.; MBh. &c.
ordinary, usual, invariable, fixed, necessary, obligatory (opp. to kāmya, naimittika &c.), Br.; ŚrS.; Mn. &c. (with samāsa m. a compound the meaning of which is not expressed by its members when not compounded, Pāṇ. ii, 1, 3, Sch.; with svarita m. = jātya, the independent Svarita, TPrāt. ii, 8)
nityā (ā), f. a plough-share, Gal.
N. of Durgā, BrahmaP.
Alternative readings
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