As a Hindi name
दोषा · noun · feminine
रात्रि । रात · संध्या · भुजा । बाँह — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "दोषा" is दोष + -आ: दोष means "fault", 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
Cited formation "दोषा" is दोषना + -आ: दोषना means "To find fault with, to censure, withstand, blame, reproach, accuse", 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 "दोषा" is दोष + -आ: दोष means "fault", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
darkness, night, &c. (˚ṣām & ˚ṣā [instr.; cf. g. svar-ādi] in the evening, at dusk, at night)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "doṣā" is the nominative of "doṣan" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "doṣā" is the feminine form of "doṣa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Related forms
Dictionary citations
doṣā f. See next.
1. doṣā f. darkness, night, RV.; AV. &c. (˚ṣām ind. & ˚ṣā [instr.; cf. g. svar-ādi] ind. in the evening, at dusk, at night)
Night personified (and regarded with, Prabh. as wife of Puṣpārṇa and mother of Pradoṣa or Evening, Niśitha [!] or Midnight and Vyuṣṭa or Day-break), BhP. iv, 13, 13; 14 (cf. doṣas, paścā-doṣa, pra-doṣa, prati-doṣam)
doṣā ind., [instr.; cf. g. svar-ādi] in the evening, at dusk, at night
2. doṣā f. (for 1. See 1. doṣa) the arm, L.
doṣan n. (occurring only in nom. du. doṣaṇī, AV.; AitBr.; gen. sg. doṣṇas, ŚBr.; instr. doṣṇā loc. doṣṇi [or doṣaṇi- See below] gen. du. doṣṇos, Rājat.; acc. pl. [m. !] doṣṇas, Pāṇ. vi, 1, 63; the other forms are supplied by dos, q.v.) the forearm, the lower part of the forefoot of an animal
the arm in general.
1. doṣa m. evening, darkness (only BhP., where personified as one of the 8 Vasus and husband of Night, vi, 6, 11; 14)
2. doṣa m. rarely n. (√ duṣ) fault, vice, deficiency, want, inconvenience, disadvantage, Up.; Mn.; MBh.; Kāv. &c.
Alternative readings
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