As a deity name
Name 729 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
अरुणा · noun · feminine
मजीठ · कोदो · अतिविषा — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "अरुणा" is अरुण + -आ: अरुण means "reddish brown, tawny, ruddy", 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 "अरुणा" is अरुण + -आ: अरुण means "reddish brown, tawny, ruddy", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अरुणा" is अ- + रुणा: रुणा means "सरस्वती नदी की एक शाखा जिसका उल्लेख महाभारत में है", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the plants Betula, madder (Rubia Manjith), Teöri, a black kind of the same, Colocynth or bitter apple, the plant that yields the red and black berry used for the jewellers weight (…
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M1 · same meaning "aruṇā" is the instrumental of "aru" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "aruṇā" is the feminine form of "aruṇa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "aruṇā" is the nominative of "aruṇiman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
aruṇā f. the plants Betula, madder (Rubia Manjith), Teöri, a black kind of the same, Colocynth or bitter apple, the plant that yields the red and black berry used for the jewellers weight (called Retti), L.
N. of a river, MBh. iii, 7022 and ix, 2429 seq.
aru m. the sun, L.
the red-blossomed Khadira tree, L.
aruṇa mf(ā [RV. v, 63, 6, &c.] or ī [RV. x, 61, 4, & (nom. pl. aruṇayas), 95, 6])n. (√ ṛ, Uṇ.), reddish-brown, tawny, red, ruddy (the colour of the morning opposed to the darkness of night), RV. &c.
perplexed, L.
aruṇiman m. redness, ruddiness, Sāh.; Bālar.
aruṇiman m., aruṇatā Redness, red colour; aruṇimnā pihitopi śuklabhāvaḥ Bv. 2. 180.
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