As a deity name
Name 844 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
प्राची · noun · feminine
पूर्व दिशा । पूरब · वह दिशा जो देवता के या अपने आगे की ओर हो · जल आँवला — Śabdasāgara
प्राची · feminine
a female given name, Prachi, from Sanskrit
प्राची · feminine
the east
Platts (p. 235) also records: fem. of prāṅć, prāk, q.v
Cited formation "प्राची" is प्राच + -ई: प्राच means "= prāṅć, prāk, qq.v", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "प्राची" is प्राच + -ई: प्राच means "= prāṅć, prāk, qq.v", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्राची — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit प्राची (prācī), from प्राञ्च् (prāñc, “directed forwards, towards; eastern”), a compound of प्र- (pra-) + अञ्च् (añc, “turned to, going towards”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
prācī f. (with or scil. diś) the east, ŚBr.; MBh. &c.
the post to which an elephant is tied, L.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the east, &c.
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Dictionary citations
prācī f. (with or scil. diś) the east, ŚBr.; MBh. &c.
the post to which an elephant is tied, L.
prācī f. of prāñc.
prācī The east; tanayamacirāt prācīvārkaṃ prasūyaṃ ca pāvanaṃ Ś. 4. 18. Comp. — patiḥ an epithet of Indra. — mūlaṃ the eastern horizon; prācīmūle tanumiva kalāmātraśeṣāṃ himāṃśoḥ Me. 89.
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