Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“death”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 132 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 827 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 193 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 958 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“death”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
यमुना · noun · feminine
दुर्गा · यम की बहन यमी, जो सूर्य के वीर्य से संज्ञा के गर्भ उत्पन्न हूई थी और जो संज्ञा को सूर्य द्वारा मिले हुए शाप के कारण पीछे से नदी हो गई थी · उत्तर भारत के एक प्रसिद्ध बड़ी नदी जो हिमालय के यमुनोत्तरी नामक स्थान से निकलकर प्रयाग में गंगा में मिलती है यह ८६० मील लंबी है ओर दिल्ली, आगरा, मथुरा आदि नगर इसके किनारे बसे हुए हैं । हिंदू इसे बहुत पवित्र नदी और यम की बहुत यमी का स्वरूप मानते हैं — Śabdasāgara
यमुना · yamunā · s.f.
The river Jamnā (see jamunā) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1252
यमुना · feminine
Yamuna, Jumna (a river in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and union territory of Delhi, India)
Cited formation "यमुना" is यमुना + -ना: यमुना means "Yamuna, Jumna (a river in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and union territory of Delhi, India)", and the suffix -ना forms infinitives. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(19) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "यमुना" is यमुन + -आ: यमुन means "(dialec. or corr.) = jamun, q.v", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi यमुना — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यमुना (yamunā), from यम (yama, “twin”), as the Yamuna runs parallel with the Ganges.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
yamunā f. N. of a river commonly called the Jumnā (in Hariv. & MārkP. identified with Yamī q.v.; it rises in the Himālaya mountains among the Jumnotri peaks at an elevation of 10,849 feet, and flows for 860 miles before it joins the Ganges at Allahabad, its water being there clear as crystal, while that of the Ganges is yellowish; the confluence of the two with the river Sarasvatī, supposed to join them underground, is called tri-veṇī, q.v.), RV. &c. &c.
of a daughter of the Muni Mataṃga, Kathās.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
The YAMUNĀ or Jumnā river, which rises on the south side of the Himāla range, at a short distance to the north-west of the source of the Ganges, and which after a course of about 3…
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yamunā f. N. of a river commonly called the Jumnā (in Hariv. & MārkP. identified with Yamī q.v.; it rises in the Himālaya mountains among the Jumnotri peaks at an elevation of 10,849 feet, and flows for 860 miles before it joins the Ganges at Allahabad, its water being there clear as crystal, while that of the Ganges is yellowish; the confluence of the two with the river Sarasvatī, supposed to join them underground, is called tri-veṇī, q.v.), RV. &c. &c.
of a daughter of the Muni Mataṃga, Kathās.
of a cow, KātyŚr., Sch.
yamunā 1 N. of a celebrated river (regarded as a sister of Yama). 2 N. of Durgā. Comp. — patiḥ N. of Viṣṇu. — bhid m. N. of Balarāma. — bhrātṛ m. Yama, the god of death.
yamunā f. (-nā) The YAMUNĀ or Jumnā river, which rises on the south side of the Himāla range, at a short distance to the north-west of the source of the Ganges, and which after a course of about 378 miles falls into that river immediately below Allahabad; in mythology, the personified river is considered as the daughter of SŪRYA, and sister of YAMA. E. yama to stop, (at the Ganges,) and unan Uṇādi aff.
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