As a deity name
Name 19 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 288 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 988 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
पद्मा · noun · feminine
लक्ष्मी · बंगाल में बहनेवाली गंगा की पूर्वी शाखा · भादों सुदी एकादशी तिथि — Śabdasāgara
पद्मा · padmā · s.f.
'The lotus-hued one,' an epithet of Lakshmī, and of Śrī, the goddess of fortune and wife of Vishnu; the plant Clerodendrum siphonanthus; the plant Hibiscus mutabilis — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 232
Cited formation "पद्मा" is पद्म + -आ: पद्म means "lotus", 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 "पद्मा" is पद्म + -आ: पद्म means "lotus", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘the lotus-hued one’, N. of Śrī, &c. (cf. padma-śrī)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "padmā" is the feminine form of "padma" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
padmā (ā), f. ‘the lotus-hued one’, N. of Śrī, Mn.; MBh. &c. (cf. padma-śrī)
a species of plant, Suśr. (Clerodendrum Siphonanthus or Hibiscus Mutabilis, L.)
cloves, L.
the flower of Carthamus Tinctoria, L.
N. of the mother of Muni-suvrata (the 20th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), L.
padma m. n. (2. or 3. pad?) a lotus (esp. the flower of the lotus-plant Nelumbium Speciosum which closes towards evening; often confounded with the water-lily or Nymphaea Alba), MBh.; Kāv. &c. (ifc. f(ā). )
the form or figure of a lotus, R.; MārkP. (a N. given by the Tāntrikas to the 6 divisions of the upper part of the body called Cakras q.v.)
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