As a deity name
Name 106 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 133 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 967 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 1004 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
As a Hindi name
सरस्वती · noun · feminine
एक प्राचीन नदी जो पंजाब में बहती थी और जिसकी क्षीण धारा कुरुक्षेत्र के पास अब भी है · विद्या या वाणी की देवी । वाग्देवी । भारती । शारदा · विद्या । इल्म — Śabdasāgara
सरस्वती · noun · feminine
सरस्वती का उत्सव जो कही वसंत पंचमी को और कहीं आश्विन के नवरात्र में होता है — Śabdasāgara
सरस्वती · sarasvatī · s.f.
The wife of Brahmā, the goddess of speech and eloquence, the patroness of music and the arts, and the inventress of the Sanskrit language and the Devanāgarī character — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 654
सरस्वती · feminine
Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge and speech; the Saraswati river. Arguably, of which only a small stream remains as the Ghaggar River; Saraswati Supercluster; a female given name from Sanskrit
Cited formation "सरस्वती" is सरस्वत + -ई: सरस्वत means "(f. -vatī), See s.v. saras", 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 "सरस्वती" is सरस्वत + -ई: सरस्वत means "(f. -vatī), See s.v. saras", 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 सरस्वती — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सरस्वती (sarasvatī). Doublet of सरसाई (sarsāī), सरसई (sarsaī), and सरसूती (sarsūtī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
saras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.
sarasvatī f. (of sarasvat, q.v. under saras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, MBh. i, 7745
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sarasvatī" is the vocative dual of "sarasvat" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "sarasvat" is derived from "saras" with the matup suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
saras n. ‘anything flowing or fluid’, a lake, large sheet of water, pond, pool, tank, RV. &c. &c. a trough, pail, RV.
water, Naigh. i, 2
saras—vat (saras-), mfn. abounding in or connected with ponds &c., BhP.
juicy, sapid, L.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
saras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.
sarasvatī f. (of sarasvat, q.v. under saras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, MBh. i, 7745
N. of a river (celebrated in RV. and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S˚ is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the RV., and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the VS. xix, 12, S˚ through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), RV. &c. &c.
N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, Mn. ii, 17] in RV. vii, 95, 2, this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), ib.
N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S˚ and which are three accord. to AV. vi, 101, and seven accord. to MBh. ix, 2188)
saras—vat (saras-), mfn. abounding in or connected with ponds &c., BhP.
juicy, sapid, L.
saras n. ‘anything flowing or fluid’, a lake, large sheet of water, pond, pool, tank, RV. &c. &c. a trough, pail, RV.
water, Naigh. i, 2
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