As a Hindi name
पीड़ा · noun · feminine
किसी प्रकार का दुःख पहुँचाने का भाव । शारीरिक या मानसिक क्लेश का अनुभव । वेदना । व्यथा । तकलीफ । दर्द · रोग । व्याधि · सिर में लपेटी हुई माला । शिरोमाला — Śabdasāgara
पीड़ा · pīṛā · s.f.
Pain, suffering, anguish; the pains of child-birth; sorrow, affliction, distress; wrong, harm, injury, oppression — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 299
पीड़ा · feminine
pain, ache
Cited formation "पीडा" is पीड़ + -आ: पीड़ means "synonym of पीड़ा (pīṛā); pain, suffering", 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 "पीडा" is पीड़ना + -आ: पीड़ना means "To be pained, &c", 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
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi पीडा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पीडा (pīḍā). Doublet of पीर (pīr).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
pīḍā f. pain, suffering, annoyance, harm, injury, violation, damage (˚ḍayā ind. with pain i.e. unwillingly), Mn.; MBh. &c.
devastation (cf. pīḍana), W.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
devastation (cf. pīḍana)
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M1 · same meaning "pīḍā" is the feminine form of "pīḍa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
pīḍā f. pain, suffering, annoyance, harm, injury, violation, damage (˚ḍayā ind. with pain i.e. unwillingly), Mn.; MBh. &c.
devastation (cf. pīḍana), W.
restriction, limitation, KātyŚr., Sch.
obscuration, eclipse (of a planet, cf. graha-p˚), Var.
pity, compassion, L.
pīḍa m. n. in tila-p˚, triṇa-p˚.
pīḍa (ṛ) pīḍṛ r. 10th cl. (pīḍayati) 1 To give pain. 2 To oppose or resist. 3 To stir, to agitate. 4 To squeeze or pinch.
Alternative readings
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