As a deity name
Name 843 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 917 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
रामा · noun · feminine
सुंदर स्त्री · गानकला में प्रवीण स्त्री · कार्तिक बदी ११ की तिथि — Śabdasāgara
रामा · rāmā · s.f.
A beautiful woman — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 583
Cited formation "रामा" is राम + -आ: राम means "Shri Rāma, the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu", 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 "रामा" is रामना + -आ: रामना means "अ॰ [सं॰ रमण] घूमना । फिरना । विचरना", 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 "रामा" is राम + -आ: राम means "Shri Rāma, the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu", 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
a beautiful woman, any young and charming woman, mistress, wife, any woman, &c. (for comp. See p. 878)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "rāmā" is the feminine form of "rāma" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
rāmā f. a beautiful woman, any young and charming woman, mistress, wife, any woman, KaṭhUp.; MBh. &c. (for comp. See p. 878)
a dark woman i.e. a woman of low origin, TS.; TĀr.
N. of various plants (Jonesia Asoka; Aloe Perfoliata; Asa Foetida &c.), L. vermilion, L.
red earth, L.
a kind of pigment (= gorocanā), L.
rāma mf(ā)n. (prob. ‘causing rest’, and in most meanings fr. √ ram) dark, dark-coloured, black (cf. rātri), AV.; TĀr. (rāmaḥ śakuniḥ. a black bird, crow, KāṭhGṛ.; Viṣṇ.)
white (?), L.
Alternative readings
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