As a Hindi name
हेषा · noun · feminine
घोड़े की हिनहिनहाट — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "हेषा" is हेष + -आ: हेष means "घोड़े की हिनहिनाहट", 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 "हेषा" is हेष + -आ: हेष means "घोड़े की हिनहिनाहट", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
neighing, whinnying
Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "heṣā" is the feminine form of "heṣa" — the same word with the feminine ending, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Dictionary citations
heṣā f. neighing, whinnying, Kir.; MārkP.
heṣaḥ, heṣā, heṣitaṃ Neighing, braying; rathāṃgasaṃkrīḍitamaśvaheṣaḥ Ki. 16. 8.
heṣā f. (-ṣā) Neighing, (as a horse, or braying, as an ass.) E. heṣa to sound, to neigh, aff. ac and ṭhāp.
heṣa mfn. quick, strong (in heṣa-kratu, ‘of strong power’, others ‘roaring mightily’, applied to the Maruts), RV. iii, 26, 5.
heṣa (ṛ) heṣṛ r. 1st cl. (heṣate) To neigh as a horse.
Alternative readings
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