anapurna

1. 1.

   wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: Hindu goddess of plenty

   SynonymsParvatiAnnapurna

   BroaderHindu deity
2. 2.

   a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,500 feet high)

   SynonymsAnnapurna

   Broadermountain peak

   Part ofHimalayasNepal

Other forms of anapurna

plural

anapurnas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anapurna

What does anapurna mean?

anapurna means "wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: Hindu goddess of plenty". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anapurna?

anapurna has 4 syllables: a-na-pur-na. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for anapurna?

Close synonyms include Parvati, Annapurna, Annapurna. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anapurna a common word?

anapurna is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.