मघाmaghā

मघा (maghā) is a Sanskrit word meaning a gift, reward, or bounty, wealth, power, a kind of flower, a particular drug or medicine, name of a Dvipa, of a country of the Mlecchas. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 6 contexts, among them The Nakshatra Maghā (Lunar Mansion), Botanical Items, Geographical Names (Dvīpa, Country).

Root
मंह् (maṃh)
Definitions
16
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Meanings by context

The Nakshatra Maghā (Lunar Mansion)

7 definitions
the tenth or fifteenth Nakshatra

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the tenth lunar mansion containing five stars

Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

the tenth lunar asterism

Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

The tenth lunar mansion consisting of five stars.

Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

name of a nakshatra

Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

a constellation

The Purana Index

See Nakshatra and Agha.

The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

Botanical Items

3 definitions
a kind of flower

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

A particular drug or medicine

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a species of grain

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Geographical Names (Dvīpa, Country)

2 definitions
name of a Dvipa

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

of a country of the Mlecchas

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Gift, Wealth, or Power

2 definitions
a gift, reward, or bounty

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

wealth, power

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Grammatical Note

1 definition
female of magha

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of a Deity

1 definition
an epithet of the wife of Shiva

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 7 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.