Shoonya Name Meaning — What the Dictionaries Record

शून्य śūnya

girl / boy / neuter 2 syllables SLP1 SUnya

Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“destitute”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.

As a deity name

Name 30 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages

Name 743 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed

As a Hindi name

शून्य · noun · masculine

वह स्थान जिसमें कुछ भी न हो । खाली स्थान · आकाश · एकांत स्थान । निर्जन स्थान — Śabdasāgara

शून्य · adj

जिसके अंदर कुछ न हो । खाली · निराकार · जो कुछ न हो । असत् — Śabdasāgara

शून्य · masculine

nil, nothing, squat, naught, null; nothingness

शून्य

empty, vacuous

Platts (p. 737) also records: Empty, void, hollow; vacant, &c. (see sūnā, sūn, and sun)

a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शून्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record

“Borrowed from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya). Doublet of सूना (sūnā), a tadbhava.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record

The Sanskrit parent — शून्य (tatsama)

śūnya mf(ā)n. empty, void (with vājin = ‘a riderless horse’; with rājya = ‘a kingless kingdom’), hollow, barren, desolate, deserted, Br. &c. &c.

empty i.e. vacant (as a look or stare), absent, absentminded, having no certain object or aim, distracted, MBh.; Kāv. &c.

As a Sanskrit word

empty, void (with vājin = ‘a riderless horse’; with rājya = ‘a kingless kingdom’), hollow, barren, desolate, deserted, &c. &c.

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Why this matches what you typed

M1 · same meaning "śūnya" is the vocative of "śūnyā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

Gender counterpart

The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.