Sanskrit

Noun

रति • ‎(rati) f

1. rest, repose.
2. pleasure, enjoyment, delight in, fondness for (loc. or comp. ; रतिम् with √ आप्, लभ्, उप-लभ्, अधि-गम्, विद्कृ or बन्ध् and loc., ‘ to find pleasure in ’).
3. the pleasure of love, sexual passion or union, amorous enjoyment (often personified as one of the two wives of काम-देव, together with प्रीति q.v.).
4. the pudenda.
5. = रति-गृह, pleasure-house.
6. Name of the sixth कल of the Moon.
7. Name of an अप्सरस्.
8. Name of the wife of विभु (mother of पृथु-षेण).
9. Name of a magical incantation recited over weapons.
10. Name of the letter न्.
11. Name of a metre.

Declension

Descendants

• Telugu: రతి ‎(rati)

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 0867