As a deity name
Name 825 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 850 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
= ˚trā-kāla, 3 in number
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "trimātre" is the locative of "trimātra" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "trimātre" is the dative of "trimātṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "trimātra" is derived from "tri" with the mātrac suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
tri m. trayas f. nom. acc. tisras n. trīṇi [trī, RV.; ŚBr. xi] 3 RV. &c. (tribhis & tisṛbhis, &c., RV.; only once tribhis [viii, 59, 5] with the later accentuation, cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 177 and 180 f.; gen. trīṇām [RV. x, 185, 1; cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 53, Kāś.] and tisṝṇām [RV. viii, 19, 37 and 101, 6], later on [fr. ˚ya] trayāṇām [AitBr.; Mn.] and tisṛṇām [RV. v, 69, 2 against metre; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 4, 4 f.]; ifc., vii, 2, 99 f., Kāś.) ;
tri [cf. τρεῖς, Lat. tres; Goth. threis; &c.]
tri—mātra mf(ā)n. = ˚trā-kāla, RPrāt.; APrāt.; ŚāṅkhŚr.; 3 in number, MBh. vii
Related forms
Dictionary citations
tri—mātra mf(ā)n. = ˚trā-kāla, RPrāt.; APrāt.; ŚāṅkhŚr.; 3 in number, MBh. vii
tri—mātṛ mfn. having 3 mothers (m. ‘creator of the 3 worlds’, Sāy.), RV. iii, 56, 5.
tri m. trayas f. nom. acc. tisras n. trīṇi [trī, RV.; ŚBr. xi] 3 RV. &c. (tribhis & tisṛbhis, &c., RV.; only once tribhis [viii, 59, 5] with the later accentuation, cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 177 and 180 f.; gen. trīṇām [RV. x, 185, 1; cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 53, Kāś.] and tisṝṇām [RV. viii, 19, 37 and 101, 6], later on [fr. ˚ya] trayāṇām [AitBr.; Mn.] and tisṛṇām [RV. v, 69, 2 against metre; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 4, 4 f.]; ifc., vii, 2, 99 f., Kāś.) ;
tri [cf. τρεῖς, Lat. tres; Goth. threis; &c.]
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