As a deity name
Name 894 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Nom. Ā. ˚yate (; exceptionally also ˚yati), to make a sound (acc.), cry, yell, bray, &c.: Caus. śabdāyayati, to cause a sound to be made by (instr.), Vārtt. 1, to cause any one (ac…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śabdāya" is the dative of "śabda" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
śabdāya (cf. √ śabd) Nom. Ā. ˚yate (Pāṇ. iii, 1, 17; exceptionally also ˚yati), to make a sound (acc.), cry, yell, bray, Nir.; MBh. &c.: Caus. śabdāyayati, to cause a sound to be made by (instr.), Pāṇ. i, 4, 52, Vārtt. 1, Pat.; to cause any one (acc.) to, cry by (instr.), Vop. v, 5.
śabda m. (in DhyānabUp. also n. ifc. f(ā). perhaps connected with √ 3. śap cf. also 2. śap) sound, noise, voice, tone, note (śabdaṃ √ kṛ, to utter a sound, raise the voice, cry aloud; sound is supposed to be sevenfold [MBh. xii, 6858] or eightfold [Dharmas. 35] or tenfold [MBh. xiv, 1418] ; in the Mīmāṃsā it is taught to be eternal)
a word (śabdena, by word, explicitly, expressly), ib., Kāś. on Pāṇ. ii, 3, 19
Alternative readings
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