As a deity name
Name 507 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
-trī 1 Night; tarati narmadām. 2 The darkness of night. 3 Turmeric. 4 One of the four forms or bodies of Brahmā. Comp
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M2 · same meaning "rātriḥ" is "rātri" with final visarga (ḥ) — regular end-of-word sandhi (Aṣṭādhyāyī 8.3.15, cited from the engine's own derivation). Same word.
visarga sandhi · aṣṭādhyāyī 8.3.15 — cited from the derivationDictionary citations
rātriḥ -trī f. [rā-trip vā ṅīp] 1 Night; rātrirgatā matimatāṃ vara muṃca śayyāṃ R. 5. 66; divā kākaravādbhītā rātrau tarati narmadām. 2 The darkness of night. 3 Turmeric. 4 One of the four forms or bodies of Brahmā. Comp. — aṭaḥ 1 a goblin, demon, ghost. 2 a thief — aṃdha a. nightblind. — karaḥ 1 the moon. 2 camphor. — caraḥ (also rātriṃcara) (rī f.) 1 ‘a night-rover’, robber. thief. 2 a watchman, patrol, guard. 3 a demon, ghost, evil spirit; (taṃ) yāṃtaṃ vane rātricarī ḍuḍhauke Bk. 2. 23. — caryā 1 night-roving. 2 a nightly act or ceremony. — jaṃ a star, constellation. — jalaṃ dew. — jāgaraḥ 1 night-watching, wakefulness or sitting up at night; R. 19. 34. 2 a dog. ˚duḥ a gnat. — tarā the dead of night. — tithiḥ f. a lunar night. — nāśanaḥ the sun. — puṣpaṃ a lotusflower opening at night. — balaḥ a demon. — maṇiḥ 1 the moon. 2 camphor. — yogaḥ night-fall. — rakṣaḥ, — rakṣakaḥ a watchman, guard. — rāgaḥ darkness, obscurity. — vāsas n. 1 night-dress. 2 darkness. — virāmaḥ ‘end of night’, break of day, dawn, day-light. — viśleṣagāmin m. the ruddy goose. — vedaḥ, -vedin m. a cock. — hāsaḥ the white lotus. — hiṃḍakaḥ 1 a guard of the women's apartments. 2 a night-stalker.
rātri f(i or ī). or (older) rātrī (prob. ‘bestower’, fr. √ rā; or ‘season of rest’, fr. √ ram) night, the darkness or stillness of night (often personified), RV. &c. &c. (˚trau ind. or ˚tryām ind. at n˚, by n˚; rātrau śayanam, a festival on the 11th day of the first half of the month Āṣāḍha, regarded as the night of the gods, beginning with the summer solstice, when Viṣṇu reposes for four months on the serpent Śeṣa)
= ati-rātra, ŚBr.
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