As a deity name
Name 387 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 932 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
अम्बा · ambā · s.m.
Mango = ām. (Poetical.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 80
अम्बा · ambā · s.f.
Mother ( = ammā); goddess ( = devī, debī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 80
अम्बा
mother
Cited formation "अम्बा" is अम्ब + -आ: अम्ब means "Mango, tree or fruit ( = q.v.)", 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
Cited formation "अम्बा" is अम्ब + -आ: अम्ब means "Mango, tree or fruit ( = q.v.)", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit अम्बा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit अम्बा (ambā), Doublet of अम्मा (ammā). Compare Bengali অম্বা (omba), Sinhalese අම්බා (ambā), ਅਮ੍ਬਾ (ambā), Kannada ಅಮ್ಬೀ (ambī), Assamese অম্বা (ma), Odia ଅମ୍ବା (ambā), Marathi अंबा (ambā), Nepali आमा (āmā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ambā f. (Ved. voc. ambe [VS.] or amba [RV.], in later Sanskṛt amba only, sometimes a mere interjection, ĀśvŚr.), a mother, good woman (as a title of respect)
N. of a plant
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a mother, good woman (as a title of respect)
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Dictionary citations
ambā f. (Ved. voc. ambe [VS.] or amba [RV.], in later Sanskṛt amba only, sometimes a mere interjection, ĀśvŚr.), a mother, good woman (as a title of respect)
N. of a plant
N. of Durgā (the wife of Śiva)
N. of an Apsaras, L.
N. of a daughter of a king of Kāśī, MBh.
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