As a deity name
Name 81 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
चम्पा · ćampā · s.m.
The tree Michelia champaca (bearing a fragrant yellow flower) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 441
Cited formation "चम्पा" is चम्प + -आ: चम्प means "Mountain ebony, Bauhinia variegata", 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 "चम्पा" is चम्प + -आ: चम्प means "Mountain ebony, Bauhinia variegata", 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
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Recorded as a personal name: a town in Aṅga (the modern Bhāgalpur or a place in its vicinity; residence of Karṇa, of Brahma-datta, ), &c.
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M1 · same meaning "campā" is the feminine form of "campa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
campā f. N. of a town in Aṅga (the modern Bhāgalpur or a place in its vicinity; residence of Karṇa, MBh. xii, 134 ff.; of Brahma-datta, Buddh.), MBh. &c.
campā f. of ˚pa, q.v.
campa m. Bauhinia variegata, L.
N. of the founder of Campā (son of Pṛthulākṣa or of Harita), Hariv. 1699; BhP. ix, 8, 1
Alternative readings
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