As a deity name
Name 181 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
प्रतापी · adj
प्रतापवान् । इकबालमंद । जिसका प्रताप हो · सतानेवाला । दुःखदायी — Śabdasāgara
प्रतापी · noun · masculine
रामचंद्र के एक सखा का नाम — Śabdasāgara
प्रतापी · pratāpī · adj.
Hot, burning; shining splendid; majestic, &c. ( = pratāp-vān — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 239
प्रतापी
glorious, magnificent
Cited formation "प्रतापी" is प्र- + तापी: तापी means "Heated, glowing", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "प्रतापी" is प्रताप + -ई: प्रताप means "opulence, majesty, glory", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "प्रतापी" is प्रताप + -ई: प्रताप means "opulence, majesty, glory", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“प्रताप (pratāp, “glory”) + -ई (-ī, “-ous”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
burning, scorching, paining (ifc.)
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pratāpī" is the nominative of "pratāpin" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Dictionary citations
pra-˚tāpin mfn. burning, scorching, paining (ifc.)
glowing, shining, splendid, majestic, powerful, MBh.; Hariv.; Rājat.
Alternative readings
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