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Names starting with Gi

गी (Gi) is the naming syllable of Dhanishta nakshatra, pada 2, in Makara rashi. These are the 19 names in Kalava's list that begin with it, each with its meaning as the Sanskrit dictionary prints it.

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Gita गीता attested
a song, sacred song or poem
gītā · MW 356,1 · Apte 459
Geet गीत attested
sung, chanted, praised in songs
gīta · MW 356,1 · Apte 459
Neuter in Sanskrit.
Gir गिर् attested
addressing, invoking, praising
gir · MW 355,1 · Apte 458
Giri गिरि attested
venerable; also a mouse, Sch
giri · MW 355,2 · Apte 458
Giribhu गिरिभू attested
a name of the Goddess (Devi); the plant kṣudrapāṣāṇa-bhedā
giribhū · MW 355,3
Giriduhita गिरिदुहिता attested
a name of the Goddess (Devi)
giriduhitṛ · MW 355,2
In Monier-Williams only, not in Apte.
Girija गिरिजा attested
N. of several plants
girijā · MW 355,2
Girisha गिरिशा attested
a name of Durga
giriśā · MW 355,3
In Monier-Williams only, not in Apte.
Girisha गिरीशा attested
a name of Durga
girīśā · MW 355,3
In Monier-Williams only, not in Apte.
Girisuta गिरिसुता attested
a name of the Goddess (Devi)
girisutā · MW 355,3
Geetika गीतिका attested
a short song or hymn, (gāthikā ed. Bomb.)
gītikā · MW 356,1 · Apte 459
The dictionary has the word, but never as anybody's name.

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Gian ज्ञान regional
Not a Sanskrit word, so the dictionary gives it no meaning.
Girija गिरिज attested
‘mountain-born’, the Mahwa tree (Bassia)
girija · MW 355,2
Masculine in Sanskrit, but given mostly to girls.
Giri गिरि attested
a mountain, hill, rock, elevation, rising-ground
giri · MW 355,2 · Apte 458
Greeshma ग्रीष्म attested
the summer, hot season (the months Śuci and Śukra
grīṣma · MW 374,2 · Apte 474
Masculine in Sanskrit, but given mostly to girls.
Giris गिरीश attested
a high mountain
girīśa · MW 355,3
Giridhar गिरिधर attested
N. of a copyist of the 17th century
giridhara · MW 355,2
In Monier-Williams only, not in Apte.
Gireesan गिरीशन् regional
the Tamil/Malayalam form of girīśa: a name of Shiva, ‘lord of the mountains’
girīśa · MW 355,3
Girisha गिरिश attested
‘inhabiting mountains’, N. of Rudra-Śiva, (voc.)
giriśa · MW 355,3 · Apte 459

What the grades mean

attested: The name is a word in Monier-Williams' Sanskrit dictionary, and the meaning is the dictionary's own.
compound: Two dictionary words joined; the meaning gives both halves.
regional: Not a Sanskrit word as it is written, but long given in Indian families: it is in the Indian electoral rolls. A Tamil or Malayalam form of a Sanskrit name says so, and takes that word's meaning.
modern coinage: Not a Sanskrit word and not in the rolls: a recent name, seen in US or UK birth registers.

MW is Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), by page and column; Apte is The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1890), by page. Where a name is not a Sanskrit word, its Devanagari is worked out from the English spelling.

The four padas of Dhanishta: गा Ga · गी Gi · गू Gu · गे Ge

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Meanings from Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), and Apte, The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1890), as digitised by the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, CC BY-SA 4.0. Popularity from the US Social Security Administration (public domain), the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0) and Indian electoral-roll first names (Chintalapati, Laohaprapanon and Sood, CC0). Kalava's names data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The licence. This page is shared under the same licence.