As a deity name
Name 538 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
प्रौढ़ा · noun · feminine
अधिक वयसवाली स्त्री । वह स्त्री जिसे जवान हुए बहुत दिन हो चुके हों · साहित्य में एक नायिका । वह नायिका जो कामकला आदि अच्छी तरह जानती हो — Śabdasāgara
प्रौढ़ा · prauṛhā · s.f.
A married woman from thirty to thirty-five years of age; a violent or impetuous woman — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 257
प्रौढ़ · masculine
an adult
Cited formation "प्रौढा" is प्रौढ़ + -आ: प्रौढ़ means "adult", 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 "प्रौढा" is प्रौढ़ + -आ: प्रौढ़ means "adult", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्रौढ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रौढ (prauḍha). Cognate with Bengali প্রৌঢ় (prōuṛh)” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
prauḍha See s.v.
prauḍha mfn. (fr. pra + ūḍha, √ vah) raised or lifted up (see -pāda)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a married woman from 30 to 55 years of age
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M1 · same meaning "prauḍhā" is the feminine form of "prauḍha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "prauḍhā" is the nominative of "prauḍhiman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
prauḍhā f. a married woman from 30 to 55 years of age, W.
a violent or impetuous woman (described as a Nāyikā who stands in no awe of her lover or husband), W.
prauḍha See s.v.
prauḍha mfn. (fr. pra + ūḍha, √ vah) raised or lifted up (see -pāda)
prauḍhiman m. the state of full growth, Vām. v, 2, 56.
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