As a deity name
Name 385 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 589 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
Name 807 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
कुमुद · noun · masculine
कुईं · लाल कमल · निर्दय । बेरहम — Śabdasāgara
कुमुद · noun · masculine
कुई । कोका · लाल कमल · चाँदी — Śabdasāgara
कुमुद · kumud · s.m.
(lit. 'exciting what joy!'), A water-lily, Rottlera tinctoria; the esculent white lotus or water-lily, Nymphæa esculenta; the red lotus, Nymphæa rubra — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 848
कुमुद · masculine
a male given name, Kumud, from Sanskrit
कुमुद · masculine
white water lily; red lotus; silver
Cited formation "कुमुद" is कु- + मुद: मुद means "हर्ष । आनंद । प्रसन्नता", and the prefix कु- forms bad, evil. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(20) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कुमुद — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit कुमुद (kumuda).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ku—muda See s.v.
ku-muda n. [as m., L.], ‘exciting what joy’, the esculent white water-lily (Nymphaea esculenta), AV. iv, 34, 5; Suśr.; Śak. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
[as, ], ‘exciting what joy’, the esculent white water-lily (Nymphaea esculenta), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kumuda" is the vocative of "kumudā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
ku—muda See s.v.
ku-muda n. [as m., L.], ‘exciting what joy’, the esculent white water-lily (Nymphaea esculenta), AV. iv, 34, 5; Suśr.; Śak. &c.
the red lotus (Nymphaea rubra), L.
ku-muda m. camphor, Bhpr.
(in music) N. of a Dhruvaka
ku-mudā f. a form of Durgā, BhP. x, 2, 12; MatsyaP.
the plant Gmelina arborea, L.
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