As a deity name
Name 251 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
सर्वा · sarvā · adj.
All, every, &c. ( = sarv, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 657
Cited formation "सर्वा" is सर्व + -आ: सर्व means "whole, entire, all, every", 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 "सर्वा" is सर्व + -आ: सर्व means "whole, entire, all, every", 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
(perhaps connected with sāra, q.v.; inflected as a pronoun except nom. acc. sg. sarvam, and serving as a model for a series of pronominals, cf. sarva-nāman) whole, entire, all, eve… — feminine form of sarva
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sarvā" is the feminine form of "sarva" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "sarvā" is the instrumental of "saru" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
sarva mf(ā)n. (perhaps connected with sāra, q.v.; inflected as a pronoun except nom. acc. sg. n. sarvam, and serving as a model for a series of pronominals, cf. sarva-nāman) whole, entire, all, every (m. sg. ‘every one’; pl. ‘all’; n. sg. ‘everything’; sometimes strengthened by viśva [which if alone in RV. appears in the meaning ‘all’, ‘every’, ‘every one’] and nikhila; sarve'pi, ‘all together’; sarvaḥ ko'pi, ‘every one so ever’; gavāṃ sarvam, ‘all that comes from cows’; sarva with a negation = ‘not any’, ‘no’, ‘none’ or ‘not every one’, ‘not everything’), RV. &c. &c.
of all sorts, manifold, various, different, MBh. &c.
saru mfn. (for śaru fr. √ śrī, p. 1056) minute, thin, fine
saru m. = śaru m. an arrow = tsaru, the hilt or handle of a sword, L.
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