Menadhava, Menādhava: 6 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Menādhava (मेनाधव).—m.

(-vaḥ) Hima'laya the personified mountain and father of Durga as Parvati. E. menā the wife of the mountain, and dhava husband.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Menādhava (मेनाधव).—m. Himālaya, the personified mountain.

Menādhava is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms menā and dhava (धव).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Menādhava (मेनाधव):—[=menā-dhava] [from menā > mena] m. ‘husband of M°’, Name of Hima-vat, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Menādhava (मेनाधव):—[menā+dhava] (vaḥ) 1. m. Himālaya.

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Menadhava in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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