Definify.com
Definition 2024
तारा
तारा
Hindi
Noun
तारा • (tārā) m (Urdu spelling تارا)
Declension
| Declension of तारा | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | तारा (tārā) | तारे (tāre) |
| oblique | तारे (tāre) | तारों (tārõ) |
| vocative | तारे (tāre) | तारो (tāro) |
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hstar- (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭 (stārō), Persian ستاره (setâre)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Other cognates include Latin stella, Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr) and Old English steorra (English star).
Noun
तारा • (tārā) f
- a fixed star, asterism
- the pupil of the eye (chiefly at the end of a compound)
- a kind of meteor
- (Samkhya philosophy) one of the 8 siddhis
- (music) name of a raga of six notes
- a kind of perfume
- a form of दाक्षायणी (dākṣāyaṇī) (worshipped on the mountain Kiṣkindha; protectress of the Gṛtsa-madas)
- name of a Buddhist goddess
- name of Brihaspati's wife (carried off by soma)
- name of the wife of Buddha Amoghasiddha
- of a shakti
- name of a yogini
- name of a female monkey
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem declension of तारा | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nom. sg. | तारा (tārā) | ||
| Gen. sg. | तारायाः (tārāyāḥ) | ||
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | तारा (tārā) | तारे (tāre) | ताराः (tārāḥ) |
| Vocative | तारे (tāre) | तारे (tāre) | ताराः (tārāḥ) |
| Accusative | ताराम् (tārām) | तारे (tāre) | ताराः (tārāḥ) |
| Instrumental | तारया (tārayā) | ताराभ्याम् (tārābhyām) | ताराभिः (tārābhiḥ) |
| Dative | तारायै (tārāyai) | ताराभ्याम् (tārābhyām) | ताराभ्यः (tārābhyaḥ) |
| Ablative | तारायाः (tārāyāḥ) | ताराभ्याम् (tārābhyām) | ताराभ्यः (tārābhyaḥ) |
| Genitive | तारायाः (tārāyāḥ) | तारयोः (tārayoḥ) | ताराणाम् (tārāṇām) |
| Locative | तारायाम् (tārāyām) | तारयोः (tārayoḥ) | तारासु (tārāsu) |
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 0443