As a deity name
Name 914 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 899 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 470 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
वाराही · noun · feminine
ब्राह्मणी आदि आठ मातृकाओं में से एक मातृका का नाम · एक योगिनी का नाम · वाराहीकंद — Śabdasāgara
वाराही · vārāhī · s.f.
A sow — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1173
Cited formation "वाराही" is वाराह + -ई: वाराह means "Belonging to a boar, boarish", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "वाराही" is वाराह + -ई: वाराह means "Belonging to a boar, boarish", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "वाराही" is वाराह + -ई: वाराह means "Belonging to a boar, boarish", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a sow
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vārāhī" is the feminine form of "vārāha" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Dictionary citations
vārāhī (ī), f., see below
vārāhī f. a sow, W.
the Śakti or female Energy of the Boar form of Viṣṇu, Yājñ., Sch.
N. of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda, MBh.
a kind of bulbous plant, Dioscorea, VarBṛS.
vārāha mf(ī)n. (fr. varāha) coming from or belonging to a boar (with upānahau du. shoes made of pig's leather; with māṃsa n. pig's flesh), Br.; Yājñ. &c.
relating to the Boar form of Viṣṇu, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
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