Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“wrathful”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 968 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 563 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 967 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 580 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“wrathful”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
उग्र · adj
प्रचंड । उत्कट · तेज । तीव्र · कड़ा । प्रबल — Śabdasāgara
उग्र · noun · masculine
महादेव । रुद्र · वत्सनाग विष । बच्छनाग जहर · क्षत्रिय पिता और शूद्रा माता से उत्पन्न एक संकर जाति — Śabdasāgara
उग्र
frightening, scary; insurgent, extreme; radical
Platts (p. 70) also records: Anger, wrath
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi उ॒ग्र — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit उ॒ग्र (ugrá).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a group of asterisms (viz. pūrva-phālgunī, pūrvāṣāḍhā, pūrva-bhādrapadā, maghā, bharaṇī)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ugra" is the vocative of "ugrā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
ugra mfn. (said to be fr. √ uc [Uṇ. ii, 29], but probably fr. a √ uj, or √ vaj, fr. which also ojas, vāja, vajra may be derived; compar. ugratara and ojīyas; superl. ugratama and ojiṣṭha), powerful, violent, mighty, impetuous, strong, huge, formidable, terrible
high, noble
cruel, fierce, ferocious, savage
angry, passionate, wrathful
hot, sharp, pungent, acrid, RV.; AV.; TS.; R.; Śak.; Ragh. &c.
ugrā (ā), f. N. of different plants, Artemisia Sternutatoria, Coriandrum Sativum, &c.
Caveats
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