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).
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Dictionary citations
taruṇī (ī), f. (g. gaurādi) a young woman, girl, R.; Suśr. &c.
a kind of pot-herb, i, 46, 4, 39
Aloe perfoliata, L.
Rosa glandulifera or alba, Npr.
Croton polyandrum or Tiglium, L.
1. taru mfn. ‘quick’ or subst. ‘speediness’, (pl.), RV. v, 44, 5 (cf. ii, 39, 3).
2. taru m. (g. vyāghrādi [not in Kāś.] cf. nabhas-) a tree, Nal. xii, 75; R. vi, 82, 115; Suśr.; Ragh. &c.
taruṇa mf(ī [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 15, Vārtt. 6, Pat.] RV.)n. (√ tṝ; g. kapilakādi, Gaṇar. 447) ‘progressive’, young, tender, juvenile, RV.; AV. &c.
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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