As a deity name
Name 903 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 419 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 882 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
तन्वी · noun · feminine
एक वृत्त का नाम जिसके प्रत्येक चरण में क्रम से भगण, तगण, नगण, सगण, भगण, यगण नगण और यगण (ऽ।।-ऽऽ।-।।।-।।ऽ-ऽ।।-ऽ।।-।।।-।ऽऽ) होते हैं । इसमें ५ वें, १२ वें और २४ वें अक्षर पर यति होती है · कोमलांगी । कृशांगी (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
तन्वी · adj
दुबले पतले और कोमल अंगोंवाली । जिसके अंग कृश और कोमल हों — Śabdasāgara
तन्वी · tanwī · s.f.
A delicate or slender woman — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 340
तन्वी · feminine
a female given name, Tanvi, from Sanskrit
तन्वी · feminine
slender, delicate, graceful
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“From तनु (tanu, “body, form”) + -ई (-ī, “feminine suffix”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a slender or delicate woman, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tanvī" is the nominative of "tanvin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
tanvī (vī), f. a slender or delicate woman, Śak.; Mālav. v; Bhartṛ. &c.
Desmodium gangeticum, L.
Balanites Roxburghii (vv.ll. tannī, ˚nni, ‘Hemionitis cordifolia’; tajvi), L.
a metre of 4 + 24 syllables
N. of a wife of Kṛṣṇa (?), Hariv. 6703
tanvin m. ‘possessed of a body’, N. of a son of Manu Tāmasa, Hariv. 429.
Alternative readings
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