As a deity name
Name 58 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 407 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 569 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
अपर्णा · noun · feminine
पार्वती का एक नाम · दुर्गा — Śabdasāgara
अपर्णा · feminine
an epithet of goddess Parvati/Durga; a female given name, Aparna, from Sanskrit
अपर्णा · feminine
leafless
Cited formation "अपर्णा" is अपर्ण + -आ: अपर्ण means "पत्तों से रहित", 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 "अपर्णा" is अपर्ण + -आ: अपर्ण means "पत्तों से रहित", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अपर्णा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अपर्णा (aparṇā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a-parṇā f. ‘not having even leaves (for food during her religious austerities)’, N. of Durgā or Pārvatī, Kum. v, 28.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘not having even leaves (for food during her religious austerities)’, N. of Durgā or Pārvatī
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M1 · same meaning "aparṇā" is the feminine form of "aparṇa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
a-parṇā f. ‘not having even leaves (for food during her religious austerities)’, N. of Durgā or Pārvatī, Kum. v, 28.
a-parṇa mfn. leafless, TS.
aparṇa a. Leafless. — rṇā N. of Durgā or Pārvatī; Kālidāsa thus accounts for the name: -svayaṃviśīrṇadrumaparṇavṛttitā parā hi kāṣṭhā tapasastayā punaḥ . tadapyapākīrṇamiti priyaṃvadāṃ vadaṃtyaparṇoti ca tāṃ purāvidaḥ Ku. 5. 28; cf. Śiva P. caturthe tyaktaparṇā ca aparṇākhyāmavāpa sā.
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