As a deity name
Name 215 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
क्षुधा · noun · feminine
[वि॰ क्षुधित, क्षुधालु] भोजन करने की इच्छा । भूख — Śabdasāgara
क्षुधा · kshudhā · s.f.
Hunger; appetite — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 836
क्षुधा · feminine
hunger, appetite
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi क्षुधा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्षुधा (kṣudhā), which derives ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćšudʰ- (“hunger”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kṣudhā f. (g. ajādi, Gaṇar. 40) id., Nal.; Pañcat.
a mystical N. of the letter y, RāmatUp.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a mystical N. of the letter y
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kṣudhā" is the instrumental of "kṣudh" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
kṣudhā f. (g. ajādi, Gaṇar. 40) id., Nal.; Pañcat.
a mystical N. of the letter y, RāmatUp.
kṣudhā f. (-dhā) Hunger. E. kṣudha to be hungry, affixes aṅ and ṭāp.
1. kṣudh cl. 4. P. kṣudhyati (p. kṣudhyat; impf. akṣudhyat; aor. Subj. kṣudhat; fut. 1st kṣoddhā, Pāṇ. vii, 2, 10; Siddh.; ind.p. kṣudhitvā, Pāṇ. vii, 2, 52; Bhaṭṭ. ix, 39), to feel hungry, be hungry, RV. i, 104, 7; AV. ii, 29, 4; TS. v, 5, 10, 6; vii, 4, 3, 1; Bhaṭṭ.
2. kṣudh t, f. hunger, RV.; AV. &c.
Alternative readings
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