As a Hindi name
दोहा · dohā · s.m.
An old and popular Prākrit and Hindī metre; a couplet, distich (the two verses of which rhyme: each verse consists of 24 mātrās, which are distributed into feet of 6+4+3 mātrās respectively, with a caesura at the end of each first hemistich) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 535
दोहा · noun · masculine
एक हिंदी छंद, जिसमें होते तो चार चरण हैं, पर जो लिखा दो पंक्तियों में जाता है, अर्थात् पहला और दूसरा चरण एक पंक्ति में और तीसरा और चौथा चरण दूसरी पंक्ति में लिखा जाता है । इसके पहले और तचीसरे चरण में १३—१३ मात्राएँ और दूसरे तथा चौथे चरण में ११—११ मात्राएँ होती हैं । दूसरे और चौथे तरण का तुकांत मिलना चाहिए । जैसे,—राम नाम मणि दीप धरु, जीह देहरी द्वार । तुलसी भीतर बाहिरो, जौ चाहसि उजियार · संकीर्ण राग का एक भेद — Śabdasāgara
दोहा · feminine
Doha (the capital and largest city of Qatar).
दोहा · masculine
doha; kind of Indian couplet
Cited formation "दोहा" is दोह + -आ: दोह means "दोहन । दूहना", 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: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "दोहा" is दोहना + -आ: दोहना means "To milk", 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 "दोहा" is दोह + -आ: दोह means "दोहन । दूहना", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word of Arabic origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“From Arabic الدَّوْحَة (ad-dawḥa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“From दो (do, “two”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Recorded as a personal name: a Prākṛt metre
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "dohā" is the feminine form of "doha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
dohā (ā), f. N. of a Prākṛt metre, Chandom.
doha mfn. (√ 2. duh) milking i.e. yielding, granting (ifc.), BhP.
doha m. milking or milk, RV.; AV.; ŚBr. &c.
Alternative readings
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