As a deity name
Name 731 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 459 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
स्थिति · noun · feminine
रहना । ठहरना । टिकाव । ठहराव । जैसे,—इस छत की स्थिति इन्हीं खंभों पर है · निवास । अवस्थान । जैसे,—यहाँ कब तक आपकी स्तिति रहेगी ? · अवस्था । दशा । हालत । जैसे,—उनकी स्थिति बहुत शोचनीय है — Śabdasāgara
स्थिति · sthiti · s.f.
The being fixed or stationary; standing, staying, remaining, abiding; stay, residence; steadiness, continuance, permanence — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 640
स्थिति · feminine
situation; position
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi स्थिति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit स्थिति (sthiti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sthiti f. standing upright or firmly, not falling, Kāvyād.
standing, staying, remaining, abiding, stay, residence, sojourn in or on or at (loc. or comp.; sthitiṃ-√ kṛ or vi- √ 1. dhā or √ grah or √ bhaj, ‘to make a stay’, ‘take up one's abode’), Kāv.; Kathās. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
standing, staying, remaining, abiding, stay, residence, sojourn in or on or at (loc. or comp.; sthitiṃ-√ kṛ or vi- √ 1. dhā or √ grah or √ bhaj, ‘to make a stay’, ‘take up one's ab…
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Dictionary citations
sthiti f. standing upright or firmly, not falling, Kāvyād.
standing, staying, remaining, abiding, stay, residence, sojourn in or on or at (loc. or comp.; sthitiṃ-√ kṛ or vi- √ 1. dhā or √ grah or √ bhaj, ‘to make a stay’, ‘take up one's abode’), Kāv.; Kathās. &c.
staying or remaining or being in any state or condition (see rājya-sth˚)
continuance in being, maintenance of life, continued existence (the 2nd of the three states of all created things, the 1st being utpatti, ‘coming into existence’, and the 3rd laya, ‘dissolution’), permanence, duration, ŚvetUp.; R.; Kālid.; BhP.; Sarvad.
duration of life, MārkP.
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