As a deity name
Name 143 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 381 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 496 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 194 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
नर्मदा · noun · feminine
पृक्का या असवर्ग नामक गंधद्रव्य · एक गंधर्व स्त्री जो सुंदरी, केतुमती और वसुदा की माता थी · मध्यप्रदेश की एक नदी जो अमरकंटक से निकलकर भड़ौंच के पास खंभात की खाडी़ में गिरती है — Śabdasāgara
नर्मदा · narmadā · s.f.
The river Narmada, or (modern) Nerbudda (which rises in the mountain Amar-kaṇṭak in the Vindhya range, and runs westward to the gulf of Cambay) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1133
नर्मदा · feminine
Narmada (a river in India)
Cited formation "नर्मदा" is नर्मद + -आ: नर्मद means "दिल्लगीबाज । मसखरा । भाँड़ । हँसोड़ । विदूषक", 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 "नर्मदा" is नर्मद + -आ: नर्मद means "दिल्लगीबाज । मसखरा । भाँड़ । हँसोड़ । विदूषक", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नर्मदा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit नर्मदा (narmadā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
narma—dā f. See narmadā.
narma-dā f. of -da (above), ‘pleasure-giver’, N. of a river (the modern Nerbudda), MBh. &c. (she is personified as the wife of Puru-kutsa and mother of Trasa-dasyu, or as a sister of the Ura-gas i.e. serpents, or as a daughter of the Soma-pas)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of plant
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "narmadā" is the feminine form of "narmada" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
narma—dā f. See narmadā.
narma-dā f. of -da (above), ‘pleasure-giver’, N. of a river (the modern Nerbudda), MBh. &c. (she is personified as the wife of Puru-kutsa and mother of Trasa-dasyu, or as a sister of the Ura-gas i.e. serpents, or as a daughter of the Soma-pas)
of a Gandharvī, R.
a kind of plant, L.
narma—da mfn. causing mirth or pleasure, delightful, Naiṣ.
narma—da m. a jester, the companion of a person's sports or amusements, L.
Alternative readings
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