तरुणी taruṇī
girl 3 syllables SLP1 taruRI

As a deity name

Name 218 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati

Name 213 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees

Name 848 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees

Name 811 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages

As a Hindi name

तरुणी · adj

स्त्री॰ [सं॰] युवती । जवान स्त्री — Śabdasāgara

तरुणी · noun · feminine

युवती । जवान स्त्री · घीकुआर । ग्वारपाठा · दंती । जमालगोटा — Śabdasāgara

तरुणी · taruṇī · s.f.

A young woman (from sixteen to thirty years of age); a young wife — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 321

Cited formation "तरुणी" is तरुण + -ई: तरुण means "young, youthful", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table

Cited formation "तरुणी" is तरुण + -ई: तरुण means "young, youthful", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table

Cited formation "तरुणी" is तरुण + -ई: तरुण means "young, youthful", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table

As a Sanskrit word

Meaning

(g. gaurādi) a young woman, girl, &c.

Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)

Why this matches what you typed

M1 · same meaning "taruṇī" is the vocative dual of "taru" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

M1 · same meaning "taruṇī" is the feminine form of "taruṇa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).

Related forms

Dictionary citations

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुणी

taruṇī (ī), f. (g. gaurādi) a young woman, girl, R.; Suśr. &c.

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुणी

a kind of pot-herb, i, 46, 4, 39

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुणी

Aloe perfoliata, L.

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुणी

Rosa glandulifera or alba, Npr.

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुणी

Croton polyandrum or Tiglium, L.

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरु (linked stem)

1. taru mfn. ‘quick’ or subst. ‘speediness’, (pl.), RV. v, 44, 5 (cf. ii, 39, 3).

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरु (linked stem)

2. taru m. (g. vyāghrādi [not in Kāś.] cf. nabhas-) a tree, Nal. xii, 75; R. vi, 82, 115; Suśr.; Ragh. &c.

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुण (linked stem)

taruṇa mf(ī [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 15, Vārtt. 6, Pat.] RV.)n. (√ tṝ; g. kapilakādi, Gaṇar. 447) ‘progressive’, young, tender, juvenile, RV.; AV. &c.

Monier-Williams (1899) · तरुण (linked stem)

new, fresh, just risen (the sun, cf. bālāditya), just begun (heat or a disease), MBh.; R.; Kum. iii, 54; Suśr.

Alternative readings

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