As a deity name
Name 487 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 472 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
ध्रुवा · noun · feminine
यज्ञपात्र जो वैकंड़ की लकड़ी का बनता है · मूर्वा । मरोड़फली · शालपर्णी । सरिवन — Śabdasāgara
ध्रुवा · dhruvā · s.f.
A virtuous woman — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 543
Cited formation "ध्रुवा" is ध्रुव + -आ: ध्रुव means "Fixed, firm, immovable, stable, enduring, constant, lasting, permament", 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 "ध्रुवा" is ध्रुवना + -आ: ध्रुवना means "सं॰ [हि॰ धुरवा] बरसना", 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 "ध्रुवा" is ध्रुव + -आ: ध्रुव means "Fixed, firm, immovable, stable, enduring, constant, lasting, permament", 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
the largest of the 3 sacrificial ladles, (with juhū & upabhṛt), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "dhruvā" is the feminine form of "dhruva" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
dhruvā (ā), f. the largest of the 3 sacrificial ladles, AV. xviii, 4, 5, 6 (with juhū & upabhṛt), VS.; ŚBr. &c.
(scil. vṛtti) a partic. mode of life, Baudh.
(scil. strī) a virtuous woman, L.
Desmodium Gangeticum, L.
Sanseviera Zeylanica, L.
dhruva mf(ā)n. (prob. fr. √ dhṛ, but cf. √ dhru and dhruv) fixed, firm, immovable, unchangeable, constant, lasting, permanent, eternal, RV. &c. &c. (e.g. the earth, a mountain, a pillar, a vow &c.; with svāṅga n. an inseparable member of the body, Pāṇ. vi, 2, 177; with dhenu f. a cow which stands quiet when milked, AV. xii, 1, 45; with diś f. the point of the heavens directly under the feet [reckoned among the quarters of the sky, cf. 2. diś] AV.; Br.; with smṛti f. a strong or retentive memory, ChUp. vii, 26, 2; cf. also under karaṇa and nakṣatra)
staying with (loc.), RV. ix, 101, 12
Alternative readings
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