As a deity name
Name 464 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 816 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 980 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 313 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
वृष · noun · masculine
गौ का नर । साँड़ · कामशास्त्र के अनुसार चार प्रकार के पुरुषों में से एक प्रकार का पुरुष · धर्म, जिसके चार पैर माने जाते हैं और जो इसी कारण साँड़ के रूप में माना जाता है — Śabdasāgara
वृष · vr̤isha · s.m.
A bull — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1188
वृष · masculine
bull, ox; Taurus (the constellation and the zodiac sign); man, male
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वृष — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit वृष (vṛṣa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. vṛṣa m. (prob. later form of vṛṣan) a man, male, husband, KāśīKh.
the male of any animal (see aśva-v˚)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a man, male, husband
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vṛṣa" is the vocative of "vṛṣā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vṛṣa" is the vocative of "vṛṣan" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
1. vṛṣa m. (prob. later form of vṛṣan) a man, male, husband, KāśīKh.
the male of any animal (see aśva-v˚)
a bull (in older language only ifc.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
the zodiacal sign Taurus, VarBṛS.
a strong or potent man (one of the four classes into which men are divided in erotic works.), L.
vṛṣā (ā), f. Gendarussa Vulgaris or Adhatoda, L.
Salvinia Cucullata, L.
vṛṣan mfn. (acc. vṛṣāṇam or vṛṣaṇam nom. pl. ˚ṣāṇas; prob. originally ‘raining, sprinkling, impregnating’) manly, vigorous, powerful, strong, mighty, great (applied to animate and inanimate objects), RV.; AV.; VS.; Br. (superl. -tama)
vṛṣan m. a man, male, any male animal, a bull, stallion &c. (also N. of various gods, as implying strength, esp. of Indra and the Maruts), ib.
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