As a deity name
Name 22 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 579 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 909 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 10 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
सर्व · adj
सारा । सब । समस्त । तमाम । कुल — Śabdasāgara
सर्व · noun · masculine
शिव का एक नाम · विष्णु का एक नाम · पारा । पारद — Śabdasāgara
सर्व · sarva · adj.
All; every; whole, entire, complete, universal (see sab) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 657
सर्व
whole, entire, all, every
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सर्व — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit सर्व (sárva). Doublet of सब (sab) and हर (har).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sarva mf(ā)n. (perhaps connected with sāra, q.v.; inflected as a pronoun except nom. acc. sg. n. sarvam, and serving as a model for a series of pronominals, cf. sarva-nāman) whole, entire, all, every (m. sg. ‘every one’; pl. ‘all’; n. sg. ‘everything’; sometimes strengthened by viśva [which if alone in RV. appears in the meaning ‘all’, ‘every’, ‘every one’] and nikhila; sarve'pi, ‘all together’; sarvaḥ ko'pi, ‘every one so ever’; gavāṃ sarvam, ‘all that comes from cows’; sarva with a negation = ‘not any’, ‘no’, ‘none’ or ‘not every one’, ‘not everything’), RV. &c. &c.
of all sorts, manifold, various, different, MBh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(perhaps connected with sāra, q.v.; inflected as a pronoun except nom. acc. sg. sarvam, and serving as a model for a series of pronominals, cf. sarva-nāman) whole, entire, all, eve…
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sarva mf(ā)n. (perhaps connected with sāra, q.v.; inflected as a pronoun except nom. acc. sg. n. sarvam, and serving as a model for a series of pronominals, cf. sarva-nāman) whole, entire, all, every (m. sg. ‘every one’; pl. ‘all’; n. sg. ‘everything’; sometimes strengthened by viśva [which if alone in RV. appears in the meaning ‘all’, ‘every’, ‘every one’] and nikhila; sarve'pi, ‘all together’; sarvaḥ ko'pi, ‘every one so ever’; gavāṃ sarvam, ‘all that comes from cows’; sarva with a negation = ‘not any’, ‘no’, ‘none’ or ‘not every one’, ‘not everything’), RV. &c. &c.
of all sorts, manifold, various, different, MBh. &c.
(with another adjective or in comp.; cf. below) altogether, wholly, completely, in all parts, everywhere, RV.; ChUp. &c.
sarva m. (declined like a subst.) N. of Śiva, MBh.
of Kṛṣṇa, Bhag.
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