As a deity name
Name 619 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
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
a husband, (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p˚ or ˚tuḥ-p˚, when =, e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, )
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "patyai" is the dative of "pati" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. pati m. (cf. √ 1. pat; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. patyā; dat. patye; gen. abl. patyur; loc. patyau; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. Pāṇ. i, 4, 8; 9) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, RV. &c. &c.
a husband, ib. (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p˚ or ˚tuḥ-p˚, Pāṇ. vi, 3, 24; when mfn. f. = m., e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, R. ii, 24, 8, or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, Mn. ix, 68)
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