Hindi

Proper noun

अग्नि • ‎(Agni) m ‎(Urdu spelling اگنی)

1. Agni, Hindu deity of fire

Noun

अग्नि • ‎(agni) m ‎(Urdu spelling اگنی)

1. fire

Synonyms

• आग ‎(āg)
• आतिश ‎(ātiś)

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowing from Sanskrit अग्नि ‎(agní).

Proper noun

अग्नि • ‎(Agni) m

1. Agni, Hindu deity of fire

Noun

अग्नि • ‎(agni) m

1. fire

Nepali

Etymology

Borrowing from Sanskrit अग्नि ‎(agní).

Proper noun

अग्नि • ‎(agni)

1. Agni, Hindu deity of fire

Noun

अग्नि • ‎(agni)

1. fire

Synonyms

• आगो (āgo)

Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowing from Sanskrit अग्नि ‎(agni).

Noun

अग्नि ‎(agni) f

1. fire

Descendants

• Hindi: आग ‎(āg), अग्नि ‎(agni)

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *agní, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis. Cognate with Latin ignis, possibly Hittite 𒀀𒀝𒉌𒅖 ‎(akniš) and Old Church Slavonic огнь ‎(ognĭ) / ⱁⰳⱀⱐ ‎(ognĭ).

Proper noun

अग्नि • ‎(Agní).

1. Agni, god of fire
   • RV 1.1.1a:

     अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवं रत्वीजम |

     होतारं रत्नधातमम ||

     agnimīḷe purohitaṃ yajñasya devaṃ ṛtvījam |

     hotāraṃ ratnadhātamam ||

     I Laud Agni, the chosen Priest, God, minister of sacrifice,

     The hotar, lavishest of wealth.

Noun

अग्नि • ‎(agní) m

1. fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, गार्हपत्य ‎(gārhapatya), आहवनीय ‎(āhavanīya), and दक्षिण ‎(dakṣiṇa))
2. the number three
3. the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid
4. bile
5. gold
6. name of various plants; Semecarpus anacardium, Plumbago zeylanica, Plumbago indica, Citrus aurantifolia
7. mystical substitute for the letter r
8. in the कातन्त्र ‎(kātantra) grammar, name of noun-stems ending in i and u

Declension

Descendants

See also

• अथर्वन्

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0005