As a Hindi name
सा · sā · adj.
suffix, (f. -ī), Like, resembling, as (it is annexed to the accusatival base of adjectives, substantives, and participles, and to the formative or oblique base of the personal pronouns, and forms adjectives; e.g. kālā-sā, 'black-like,' 'blackish'; laṛkā-sā, 'boy-like,' 'boyish'; tujh-sā (rarely tu-sā), 'like thee' — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 621
सा · sā · adv.
suffix (f. -ī), Very, intensely, &c. (it is annexed to adjectives, and to the relative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns; and forms adjectives with an intensified signification; e.g. kālā-sā, 'very black'; bahut-sā, 'very much or many,' 'a great deal of,' 'a great many' — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 621
सा · masculine
the first note of the Indian solfege – षड्ज (ṣaḍj)
सा
like, as; resembling, alike; -ish, -esque
Śabdasāgara also records: समान । तुल्य । सदृश । बराबर । जैसे,—उनका रंग तुम्ही सा है · एक प्रकार का मानसूचक शब्द । जैसे,—बहुत सा, थोड़ा सा, जरा सा
Cited formation "सा" is स + -आ: स means "the thirty-second consonant in Hindi", 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 "सा" is सना + -आ: सना means "Sanaa (the capital and largest city of Yemen)", 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
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit सम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Ultimately from Sanskrit सम (sama).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. sama mfn. (connected with 7. sa and with 2. sama and samāna; cf. samaha, used as pron.: declined like sarva, e.g. samasmai, RV. vi, 51, 6) any, every, RV.
sama [cf. Gk. ἁμός, ἀμός; Goth. suma; Angl.Sax. sum; Eng. some.]
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
giving, bestowing, granting (cf. ap-, aśva-sā &c.)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (8)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sā" is the nominative of "sāman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sā" is the feminine form of "sa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "sā" is the nominative of "sīman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sā" is the nominative of "tad" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
sā f. N. of Lakṣmi or Gaurī
1. sā f. of 4. sa, q.v.
2. sā f. of 6. sa, q.v.
3. sā (weak form of √ san), giving, bestowing, granting (cf. ap-, aśva-sā &c.)
4. sā = √ so, q.v.
1. sāman n. (fr. √ 1. sā = 1. san) acquisition, possession, property, wealth, abundance, RV.; VS.
2. sāman n. (m. only in TBr.; prob. connected with √ sāntv; accord. to some fr. √ 1. sā; cf. 3. sāman) calming, tranquillizing, (esp.) kind or gentle words for winning an adversary, conciliation, negotiation (one of the 4 Upāyas or means of success against an enemy, the other 3 being dāna, bheda, and daṇḍa, qq.vv.; ibc. or instr. sg. and pl., ‘by friendly means or in a friendly way, willingly, voluntarily’), TBr.; &c.
1. sa the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin).
2. sa (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯)
sīman m. (see 2. sī and sītā) a separation or parting of the hair so as to leave a line, AV.; Br.; AitUp.
a suture of the skull, L.
tad (nom. and acc. sg. n. of and base in comp. for 2. ta from which latter all the cases of this pron. are formed except nom. sg. m. sas or sa & f. sā; instr. pl. tais, AV. &c.; Ved. tebhis, RV.; AV. &c.) m. he f. she n. it, that, this (often correlative of ya generally standing in the preceding clause, e.g. yasya buddhiḥ sa balavān, ‘of whom there is intellect he is strong’; sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, connected with the 1st and 2nd personal pronouns, with other demonstratives and with relatives, e.g. so 'ham, ‘I that very person, I myself’ [tasya = mama, Nal. xv, 10]; tāv imau, ‘those very two’; tad etad ākhyānam, ‘that very tale’, AitBr. vii, 18; yat tat kāraṇam, ‘that very reason which’, Mn. i, 11; yā sā śrī, ‘that very fortune which’, MBh. vii, 427), RV. &c.
tad (tad) n. this world (cf. idam), R. vi, 102, 25
soman m. one who presses or prepares Soma, RV.; Naigh.; Nir.
a S˚ sacrificer, MW.
san in comp. for sat.
1. san cl. 1. P., cl. 8. P. Ā. (Dhātup. xiii, 21; xxx, 2) sanati, ˚te or sanoti, sanute (Ā. rare and only in non-conjugational tenses; pf. sasāna, RV.; p. sasavas, ib. f. sasanuṣī, Br.; sasanivas or senivas Gr.; sene, ib.; aor. asāniṣam [Subj. saniṣat Ā. saniṣāsmahe, saniṣanta] RV.; Impv. saniṣantu, SV.; seṣam, set, MaitrS.; Br.; asāta Gr.; Prec. sanyāt, sāyāt, ib.; fut. sanitā, ib.; saniṣyati, RV.; Br.; inf. sanitum Gr.), to gain, acquire, obtain as a gift, possess, enjoy, RV.; AV.; Br.; ŚrS.; to gain for another, procure, bestow, give, distribute, RV.; (Ā.) to be successful, be granted or fulfilled, ib. : Pass. sanyate or sāyate, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43 : Caus. sānayati (aor. asīṣaṇat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. sisānayiṣati, ib. : Desid. sisaniṣati (Gr.) or siṣāsati (? sīṣatī, AV. iv, 38, 2), to wish to acquire or obtain, RV.; TS.; AV.; to wish to procure or bestow, RV.; AV. : Intens. saṃsanyate, sāsāyate, saṃsanti (Gr.), to gain or acquire repeatedly (only 3. pl. saniṣṇata, RV. i, 131, 5).
sṛ (cf. √ sal) cl. 1. 3. P. (Dhātup. xxii, 37; xxv, 17) sarati (ep. also ˚te and accord. to Pāṇ. vii, 3, 78 also dhāvati), and sisarti (the latter base only in Veda; 3. du. sisratuḥ, 3. pl. sisrate, RV.; p. sisrat [q.v.] ib.; pf. sasāra, sasre, ib. &c.; 1. du. sasṛva, ŚBr.; p. sasṛvas, sasrāṇa and sasṛmāṇa, RV.; aor. asārṣīt Gr.; Subj. sarṣat, AV.; Prec. sriyāt Gr.; fut. sartā, ib.; sariṣyati, RV. &c.; inf. sartum, MBh. &c.; sartave, ˚tavai, RV.; ind.p. sṛtvā, Br.; -sṛtya, -sāram, Br. &c.), to run, flow, speed, glide, move, go (with uccakais, ‘to spring up’; with vājam, or ājim, ‘to run a race’ i.e. ‘exert one's self’), RV. c. &c.; to blow (as wind), Megh.; to run away, escape, R.; Mālav.; BhP.; to run after, pursue (acc.), RV.; to go towards, betake one's self to (acc. or tatra &c.), MBh.; BhP.; to go against, attack, assail, MBh.; to cross, traverse (acc.), R.; (Ā.) to begin to flow (said of the fluid which surrounds the fetus), AV. : Pass. sriyate (aor. asāri, Br.), to be gone &c., Gr.: Caus. sārayati or cl. 10. P. (Dhātup. xxxii, 107) to cause to run, Nir.; to set in motion, strike (a lute), Megh.; to remove, push aside (a braid of hair), ib.; put in array, to arrange (with dyūtam, ‘the men on a chess-board’), Pañcad.; to make visible, show, manifest, Viddh.; to nourish, foster (gen.), HPariś.; Ā. sārayate (for sarayate See saraya, p. 1182, col. 1), to cause one's self to be driven, drive (in a carriage), ĀśvGṛ. : pass. sāryate, to be made to flow, discharge (excrement), Suśr. : Desid. sisīrṣati, to wish to run (vājam, ‘a race’), TS. : Intens. (cf. sarisrara) sarsṛte (p. sarsrāṇa See pra-√ sṛ) or sarīsarti, to stride backwards and forwards, Kāv.; to blow violently (as the wind), ib.
sṛ [cf. Gk. ὁρμή, ὁρμάω; ἅλμα, ἅλλομαι; Lat. salire.]
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