As a deity name
Name 559 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 438 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
पौरुषी · noun · feminine
स्त्री — Śabdasāgara
पौरुषी · paurushī · s.f.
The measure of a man ( = paurush) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 279
Cited formation "पौरुषी" is पौरुष + -ई: पौरुष means "masculinity, virility", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "पौरुषी" is पौरुष + -ई: पौरुष means "masculinity, virility", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "पौरुषी" is पौरुष + -ई: पौरुष means "masculinity, virility", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a woman
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pauruṣī" is the feminine form of "pauruṣa" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Dictionary citations
pauruṣī (ī), f. a woman, ŚāṅkhŚr.
a period of 3 hours (= yāma), HPariś.
1. pauruṣa mf(ī)n. (fr. puruṣa) manly, human, ŚBr.; MBh. &c.
belonging or sacred to Puruṣa, RPrāt.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
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