As a deity name
Name 912 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 908 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 214 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 599 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
वारुणी · noun · feminine
मदिरा । शराब · वरुण की स्त्री । वरुणानी · उपनिषद् विद्या, जिसका उपदेश वरुण ने किया था — Śabdasāgara
वारुणी · vāruṇī · s.f.
The western quarter or region presided over by Varuṇa, the west — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1174
वारुणी · feminine
Varuni, the daughter of Lord Varuna and Goddess of liquor; Shatabhisha, the twenty-fifth lunar asterism; a female given name, Varuni, from Sanskrit
वारुणी · feminine
wine, liquor, alcohol; west; female elephant
Cited formation "वारुणी" is वारुण + -ई: वारुण means "जल", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "वारुणी" is वारुण + -ई: वारुण means "जल", 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: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वारुणी — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit वारुणी (vāruṇī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vāruṇī (ī), f., see below
vāruṇī f. the western quarter or region (presided over by Varuṇa), the west (with or without diś), VarBṛS.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the western quarter or region (presided over by Varuṇa), the west (with or without diś)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vāruṇī" is the nominative dual of "vāruṇi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vāruṇī" is the vocative dual of "vāru" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vāruṇī" is the feminine form of "vāruṇa" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
vāruṇī (ī), f., see below
vāruṇī f. the western quarter or region (presided over by Varuṇa), the west (with or without diś), VarBṛS.
N. of partic. serpents, GṛS.
(pl.) of partic. sacred texts, Gaut.
Varuṇa's female Energy (personified either as his wife or as his daughter, produced at the churning of the ocean and regarded as the goddess of spirituous liquor), TĀr.; MBh.; R.; Pur.
1. vāruṇi m. ‘son of Varuṇa’, patr. of various persons (esp. of Bhṛgu, Satya-dhṛti, Vasiṣṭha, Agastya &c.), Br.; RAnukr.; MBh.
2. vāruṇi f. (mc.) = vāruṇī, spirituous liquor, Hariv.
vāru m. a royal elephant, war-elephant (carrying a standard = vijaya-kuñjara), L.
a horse, L.
vāruṇa mf(ī)n. (fr. varuṇa) relating or belonging or sacred to or given by Varuṇa, AV. &c. &c. (in MBh. & R. also said of partic. weapons)
relating to the sea or to water, marine, oceanic, aquatic, MBh.; Kāv. &c. (with bhūta n. an aquatic animal)
Alternative readings
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