Hindi

Noun

भक्ति • ‎(bhakti) f ‎(Urdu spelling بھکتی)

1. devotion
2. constancy
3. faith, faithfulness
4. reverence
5. devoutness
6. adoration, fidelity

Related terms

• भक्त ‎(bhakt)

Sanskrit

Etymology

From the -ta participle of the verbal root भजति ‎(bhajati, “to divide, distribute, allot or apportion to”); compare भक्त ‎(bhaktá, “distributed, assigned, alloted”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-.

Noun

भक्ति • ‎(bhaktí) f

1. distribution, partition, separation

   क्षेत्रभक्ति ‎(kṣetra-bhakti, “the division of a field”) — '

   भङ्गीभक्ति ‎(bhaṅgī-bhakti, “division or separation into (a series of) waves or wave-like steps”) — '

2. division, portion, share
3. a division of a सामन् ‎(sāman) (also called विधि ‎(vidhi), of which 7 or 5 are enumerated)
4. division by streaks or lines
5. streak, line, variegated decoration
6. row, series, succession, order

   भक्त्या ‎(bhaktyā) and भक्तितस् ‎(bhakti-tas, “in succession”)

7. (at the end of a compound) the being a part of, belonging to

   अज्भक्तेः ‎(ajbhakteḥ, “on the part of the vowels”)

8. that which belongs to or is contained in anything else, an attribute
9. predisposition (of body to any disease)
10. attachment, devotion, fondness for, devotion to; bhakti
11. (with locative, genitive or at the end of a compound) trust, homage, worship, piety, faith or love or devotion (as a religious principle or means of salvation, together with कर्मन् ‎(karman, “works”), and ज्ञान ‎(jñāna, “spiritual knowledge”))
12. (at the end of a compound) assumption of the form of
13. often wrong reading for भङ्गि ‎(bhaṅgi) or भुक्ति ‎(bhukti)

Declension

Descendants

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 0743