As a Hindi name
गूढ़ा · noun · feminine
पहेली । प्रहेलिका — Śabdasāgara
गूढ़ा · gūṛhā · s.m.
= guṛhā, and gūṅṛā, qq.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 924
गूढ़ा · feminine
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Cited formation "गूढा" is गूढ़ + -आ: गूढ़ means "Covered, veiled, hidden, concealed", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "गूढा" is गूढ़ + -आ: गूढ़ means "Covered, veiled, hidden, concealed", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गूढ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गूढ (gūḍha).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gūḍha mfn. (gūḻha, RV.) covered, hidden, concealed, invisible, secret, private, RV. &c.
disguised, Mn. ix, 261; MBh. iii, 17311
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Recorded as a personal name: a Śruti
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gūḍhā" is the feminine form of "gūḍha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
gūḍhā f. N. of a Śruti, Gal.
gūḍha mfn. (gūḻha, RV.) covered, hidden, concealed, invisible, secret, private, RV. &c.
disguised, Mn. ix, 261; MBh. iii, 17311
Alternative readings
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