As a deity name
Name 739 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 295 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 93 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 723 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
प्रकृति · noun · feminine
स्वभाव । मूल या प्रधान गुण जो सदा बना रहे । तासीर । जैसे,— आलू की प्रकृति गरम है · प्राणी की प्रधान प्रवृत्ति । न छूटनेवाली विशेषता । स्वभाव । मिजाज । जैसे,— वह बड़ी खोटी प्रकृति का मनुष्य है · जगत् का मूल बीज । वह मूल शक्ति अनेक रूपात्मक जगत् जिसका विकास है । जगत् का उपादान कारण । कुदरत — Śabdasāgara
प्रकृति · pra-kr̤iti · s.f.
The original or natural form (of anything), natural condition or state, original, primary substance; cause, original source; origin, extraction, descent; nature, character, constitution, disposition, habit, temper, temperament — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 251
प्रकृति · feminine
a female given name, Prakriti or Prakrati, from Sanskrit
प्रकृति · feminine
nature
Cited formation "प्रकृति" is प्र- + कृति: कृति means "action, activity, doing, work", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्रकृ॑ति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रकृ॑ति (prákṛti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a goddess, the personified will of the Supreme in the creation (hence the same with the Śakti or personified energy or wife of a deity, as Lakṣmī, Durgā &c.; also considered as ide…
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Dictionary citations
pra-˚kṛti f. See next p.
pra-kṛti f. ‘making or placing before or at first’, the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance (opp. to vi-kṛti, q.v.), Prāt.; Nir.; Jaim.; MBh.
cause, original source, Mn.; MBh.; Śak. &c.
origin, extraction, Mṛcch.
nature, character, constitution, temper, disposition, MBh.; Kāv.; Suśr. &c. (ibc. and ˚tyā ind. by nature, naturally, unalterably, properly, Prāt.; ŚrS.; Mn. &c.)
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