As a deity name
Name 30 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
हंसा · haṅsā · s.m.
A poet. form of haṅs, 'goose,' q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1237
हंसा · haṅsā · s.m.
Laughing; laugh; laughter (see haṅsī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1237
हँसना
to laugh, chuckle; to smile; to laugh [with पर (par) ‘at’], to make fun of or joke about; to be or appear cheerful or pleasant
हँसाना
to make laugh, entertain
Cited formation "हंसा" is हंस + -आ: हंस means "swan", 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 "हंसा" is हंसना + -आ: हंसना means "To laugh, to smile", 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 "हंसा" is हंस + -आ: हंस means "swan", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit हसति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Hindi verb set हँसना (hãsnā) हँसाना (hãsānā) हँसवाना (hãsvānā) Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰas- Sanskrit हस् (has) Sanskrit हसति (hasati) Prakrit 𑀳𑀲𑀇 (hasaï) Apabhramsa हसइ (hasaï) Hindi हँसना Inherited from Apabhramsa हसइ (hasaï), from Prakrit हसइ (hasaï), from Sanskrit…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Hindi verb set हँसना (hãsnā) हँसाना (hãsānā) हँसवाना (hãsvānā) From हँसना (hãsnā, “laugh”) + -आना (-ānā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in to be able to separate Soma from water… — feminine form of haṃsa
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "haṃsā" is the feminine form of "haṃsa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
1. haṃsa m. (ifc. f(ā). ; accord. to Uṇ. iii, 62 fr. √ 1. han, ‘to go?’) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in RV. to be able to separate Soma from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in later literature, milk from water when these two are mixed; also forming in RV. the vehicle of the Aśvins, and in later lit˚ that of Brahmā; ifc. also = ‘best or chief among’), RV. &c. &c.
the soul or spirit (typified by the pure white colour of a goose or swan, and migratory like a goose; sometimes ‘the Universal Soul or Supreme Spirit’, identified with Virāj, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Kāma, and the Sun; du. ‘the universal and the individual Spirit’; accord. to Sāy. resolvable into ahaṃ sa, ‘I am that’), Up.; MBh.; Hariv. &c.
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