As a deity name
Name 437 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
पुरुषा · purushā · s.m.
pl. People of old, the ancients; the fathers, ancestors, predecessors — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 249
Cited formation "पुरुषा" is पुरुष + -आ: पुरुष means "man, male", 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 "पुरुषा" is पुरुष + -आ: पुरुष means "man, male", 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 Supreme Being or Soul of the universe (sometimes with para, parama, or uttama; also identified with Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva and Durgā), &c. &c. — feminine form of puruṣa
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M1 · same meaning "puruṣā" is the feminine form of "puruṣa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
puruṣa m. (mc. also pūr˚; prob. fr. √ pṝ and connected with puru, pūru ifc. f(ā). , rarely f(ī). ; cf. Pāṇ. iv, 1, 24) a man, male, human being (pl. people, mankind), RV. &c. &c.
a person, (pumān puruṣaḥ, a male person, ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Mn.; daṇḍaḥp˚, punishment personified, Mn.; esp. grammatical pers.; with prathama, madhyama, uttama = the 3rd, 2nd, 1st pers. Nir.; Pāṇ.), an officer, functionary, attendant, servant, Mn.; MBh. &c. (cf. tat-p˚)
Alternative readings
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