वेङ्कट

Borrowed from Telugu వెంకట (veṅkaṭa).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐjŋ.kɐ.ʈɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋeːŋ.kɐ.ʈɐ/

वेङ्कट • (veṅkaṭa) stem, m

1. Name of a very sacred hill in the द्राविड (drāviḍa) country (in the district of North Arcot, about 80 miles from Madras; it reaches an elevation of about 2,500 feet above the sea level, and on the summit is the celebrated temple dedicated to विष्णु (viṣṇu) in his character of ‘Lord of वेङ्कट’, also called श्री-पति (śrī-pati) or Tirupati, whence the hill is sometimes popularly known as त्रि-पती (tri-patī); it is annually thronged with thousands of pilgrims.
2. Name of a king of विजय-नगर (vijaya-nagara) (the patron of अप्पय दीक्षित (appaya dīkṣita)).
3. Name of various authors and teachers.

• वेङ्कटेश्वर (veṅkaṭeśvara)

• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “वेङ्कट”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
• Monier Williams (1899) “वेङ्कट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page {{{1}}}.