Devi Definition

dāvē
noun
A Hindu goddess, the consort of Siva.
Webster's New World
A mother goddess having various roles and manifestations, especially as Durga, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati, the female counterparts to the male gods of the Trimurti.
American Heritage
pronoun

(Hinduism) Shakti, the female aspect of the divine, as conceptualized by the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. She is the female counterpart without whom the male aspect, which represents consciousness or discrimination, remains impotent and void.

Wiktionary
A female given name used in India.
Wiktionary

Origin of Devi

  • Sanskrit devī feminine of devaḥ god dyeu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Sanskrit देवी (devī́, “goddess, female deity”).

    From Wiktionary

Devi Sentence Examples

  • Though they themselves trace their origin to seven Mahommedan tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period; at any rate, their religious creed and practices as stanch worshippers of Kali (Devi, Durga), the Hindu goddess of destruction, had certainly no flavour of Islam in them.

  • Thence, bending slightly south, it extends in the line of snowy peaks which are seen from Simla to the famous peaks of Gangotri and Nanda Devi.

  • The divine object of the adoration of the Saktas, then, is Siva's wife - the Devi (goddess), Mahadevi (great goddess), or Jagan-mata (mother of the world) - in one or other of her numerous forms, benign or terrible.

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  • While it's true that the majority of yoga gurus and students were male, Indra Devi was a primary exception.

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