As a deity name
Name 969 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 245 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 646 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 69 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
प्रजापति · noun · masculine
सृष्टि को उत्पन्न करनेवाला । वह जिसने सृष्टि उत्पन्न की है । सृष्टिकर्ता · ब्रह्मा · मनु — Śabdasāgara
प्रजापति · noun · feminine
गौतम बुद्ध को पालनेनवाली गौतमी का नाम — Śabdasāgara
प्रजापति · masculine
Prajapati; the creator deity, an epithet of Lord Brahma
प्रजापति · masculine
a king, monarch, sovereign; a householder, father of a family; a potter
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्रजापति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रजापति (prajāpati). By surface analysis, प्रजा (prajā, “progeny; subjects”) + पति (pati, “lord; master”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
prajā—pati (˚jā-), m. ‘lord of creatures’, N. of Savitṛ, Soma, Agni, Indra &c., RV.; AV.
(˚jā-) a divinity presiding over procreation, protector of life, ib.; VS.; Mn.; Suśr.; BhP.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
lord of creatures, creator, &c. &c. (N. of a supreme god above or among the Vedic deities [ (only ); ] but in later times also applied to Viṣṇu, Śiva, Time personified, the sun, fi…
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M1 · same meaning "prajāpati" is the vocative of "prajāpatī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
prajā—pati (˚jā-), m. ‘lord of creatures’, N. of Savitṛ, Soma, Agni, Indra &c., RV.; AV.
(˚jā-) a divinity presiding over procreation, protector of life, ib.; VS.; Mn.; Suśr.; BhP.
(˚jā-) lord of creatures, creator, RV. &c. &c. (N. of a supreme god above or among the Vedic deities [RV. (only x, 21, 10); AV.; VS.; Br.] but in later times also applied to Viṣṇu, Śiva, Time personified, the sun, fire, &c., and to various progenitors, esp. to the 10 lords of created beings first created by Brahmā, viz. Marīci, Atri, Aṅgiras, Pulastya, Pulaka, Kratu, Vasiṣṭha, Pracetas or Dakṣa, Bhṛgu, Nārada [Mn. i, 34; cf. IW. 206 n. 1], of whom some authorities count only the first 7, others the last 3)
(˚jā-) a father, L.
(˚jā-) a king, prince, L.
prajā—patī (˚jā-), f. a matron, lady, Divyāv.
N. of Gautama Buddha 's aunt and nurse (with the patr. Gautamī, the first woman who assented to his doctrines), Lalit.
Alternative readings
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