As a deity name
Name 73 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 509 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
बहुरूपा · noun · feminine
दुर्गा । अग्नि की सात जिह्वाओं में से एक — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "बहुरूपा" is बहुरूप + -आ: बहुरूप means "अनेक रूप धारण करनेवाला", 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 "बहुरूपा" is बहुरूप + -आ: बहुरूप means "अनेक रूप धारण करनेवाला", 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
Recorded as a personal name: one of the seven tongues of fire
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "bahurūpā" is the feminine form of "bahurūpa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "bahurūpa" is derived from "bahu" with the rūpap suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
bahu mf(vī or u)n. much, many, frequent, abundant, numerous, great or considerable in quantity (n. also as subst. with gen.), RV. (rarely in Maṇḍ. i-ix), AV. &c. &c. (tadbahu-yad, ‘it is a great matter that’, MBh.; tvayā me bahu kṛtaṃ-yad, ‘you have done me a great service by — or that —’, Nal.; kim bahunā, ‘what occasion is there for much talk?’ i.e. ‘in short’, Śak.; Hit.)
abounding or rich in (instr.), ŚBr.
bahu—rūpa mf(ā)n. multiform, variegated, checkered
manifold, VS. &c. &c.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
bahu—rūpā (ā), f. N. of one of the seven tongues of fire, L.
bahu—rūpa mf(ā)n. multiform, variegated, checkered
manifold, VS. &c. &c.
bahu mf(vī or u)n. much, many, frequent, abundant, numerous, great or considerable in quantity (n. also as subst. with gen.), RV. (rarely in Maṇḍ. i-ix), AV. &c. &c. (tadbahu-yad, ‘it is a great matter that’, MBh.; tvayā me bahu kṛtaṃ-yad, ‘you have done me a great service by — or that —’, Nal.; kim bahunā, ‘what occasion is there for much talk?’ i.e. ‘in short’, Śak.; Hit.)
abounding or rich in (instr.), ŚBr.
Alternative readings
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