As a deity name
Name 981 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 257 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
वृषभ · noun · masculine
बैल या साँड़ · साहित्य में वैदर्भी रीति का एक भेद · कान का छेद — Śabdasāgara
वृषभ · vr̤ishabh · s.m.
A bull — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1188
वृषभ · masculine
Taurus; Taurus constellation
वृषभ · masculine
bull, ox
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वृषभ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit वृषभ (vṛṣabha).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vṛṣabha mfn. (cf. ṛṣabha) manly, mighty, vigorous, strong (applied like vṛṣan to animate and inanimate objects), RV.; AV.
vṛṣabha m. (ifc. f(ā). ) a bull (in Veda epithet of various gods, as of Indra, Bṛhas-pati, Parjanya &c.; according to Sāy. = varṣayitṛ, ‘a showerer of bounties, benefactor’), RV. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a partic. drug (described as a root brought from the Himālaya mountains, resembling the horn of a bull, of cooling and tonic properties, and serviceable in catarrh and consumption)…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vṛṣabha" is the vocative of "vṛṣabhā" — 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
vṛṣabha mfn. (cf. ṛṣabha) manly, mighty, vigorous, strong (applied like vṛṣan to animate and inanimate objects), RV.; AV.
vṛṣabha m. (ifc. f(ā). ) a bull (in Veda epithet of various gods, as of Indra, Bṛhas-pati, Parjanya &c.; according to Sāy. = varṣayitṛ, ‘a showerer of bounties, benefactor’), RV. &c.
vṛṣabha m. the chief, most excellent or eminent, lord or best among (in later language mostly ifc., or with gen.), ib.
the zodiacal sign Taurus, VarBṛS.
a partic. drug (described as a root brought from the Himālaya mountains, resembling the horn of a bull, of cooling and tonic properties, and serviceable in catarrh and consumption), Bhpr.
vṛṣabhā (ā), f. N. of the three lunar mansions (viz. of Maghā, Pūrva-phalgunī, and Uttaraphalgunī), VP. (cf. vīthi)
of a river, MBh.
Alternative readings
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