As a Hindi name
साधना · noun · feminine
कोई कार्य सिद्ध या संपन्न करने की क्रिया । सिद्धि · किसी देवता या यंत्र आदि को सिद्ध करने के लिये उसकी आराधना या उपासना करना — Śabdasāgara
साधना · verb
स॰ · (कोई कार्य) सिद्ध करना । पूरा करना · निशाना लगाना । संधान करना । जैसे,—लक्ष्य साधना — Śabdasāgara
साधना · sādhanā · s.f.
Accomplishment, completion, performance, fulfilment; observance; means, contrivance, expedient; regulation — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 623
साधना · sādhnā · v.t.
To accomplish, effect, perform; to observe, keep; to practise, to use; to prepare, make, shape, fashion, mould — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 623
साधना · feminine
meditation; penance
साधना
to accomplish, acquire knowledge of; to practice, attempt; to aim at; shoot at
Cited formation "साधना" is साध + -ना: साध means "ambition, craving, longing", and the suffix -ना forms infinitives. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(19) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi साधना — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit साधना (sādhanā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sādhanā (ā), f. accomplishment, performance (see mantra-s˚)
propitiation, worship, adoration, L.
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit साध्नोति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Old Hindi साधना (sādhanā), from Sanskrit साध्नोति (sādhnoti, “to accomplish”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
accomplishment, performance (see mantra-s˚)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sādhanā" is the feminine form of "sādhana" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
sādhanā (ā), f. accomplishment, performance (see mantra-s˚)
propitiation, worship, adoration, L.
sādhanā 1 Accomplishment, fulfilment, completion. 2 Worship, adoration. 3 Conciliation, propitiation.
sādhana mf(ī or ā)n. leading straight to a goal, guiding well, furthering, RV.
effective, efficient, productive of (comp.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
Alternative readings
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