As a Hindi name
रूपा · noun · masculine
चाँदी · घटिया चाँदी, जिसमें कुछ मिलावट हो · वह बैल जो बिलकुल सफेद रंग का हो । इस रंग के बैल मजबूत और सहिष्णु माने जाते हैं — Śabdasāgara
रूपा · rūpā · s.m.
Silver; base silver — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 603
रूपा · masculine
silver
Cited formation "रूपा" is रू + -पा: रू means "face", and the suffix -पा forms abstract nouns (masc.); first vowel shortens. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(11) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "रूपा" is रूप + -आ: रूप means "outward appearance, form, figure, shape, appearance, semblance, image, representation, picture", 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 "रूपा" is रूप + -आ: रूप means "outward appearance, form, figure, shape, appearance, semblance, image, representation, picture", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word of Prakrit origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀼𑀧𑁆𑀧 (ruppa). Doublet of रूप (rūp).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Recorded as a personal name: a river
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "rūpā" is the feminine form of "rūpa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
rūpā (ā), f. N. of a river, VP.
rūpa n. (perhaps connected with varpa, varpas; ifc. f.(ā), rarely (ī)) any outward appearance or phenomenon or colour (often pl.), form, shape, figure, RV. &c. &c. (rūpeṇa ifc. in the form of ; rūpam-√ kṛ or √ bhū, to assume a form; often ifc. = ‘having the form or appearance or colour of’, ‘formed or composed of’, ‘consisting of’, ‘like to’; sometimes used after an adj. or p.p. to emphasize its meaning or almost redundantly, cf. ghora-r˚; or connected with a verb, e.g. pacati-rūpam, he cooks very well, cf. Pāṇ. viii, 1, 57)
dreamy or phantom shapes (pl.), VS.; ŚBr.
Alternative readings
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