As a deity name
Name 113 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 935 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 180 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 113 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
शारदा · noun · feminine
एक प्रकार की वीणा · ब्राह्मी · अनंतमूल । शारिवा — Śabdasāgara
शारदा · śāradā · s.f.
A name of Sarasvatī (q.v.); and of Durgā — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 716
शारदा · feminine
an epithet of सरस्वती (sarasvatī, “Saraswati”); a female given name, Sharada, from Sanskrit; Sharada; a script used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri in the northwestern Indian subcontinent.
Cited formation "शारदा" is शारद + -आ: शारद means "Of or belonging to autumn, autumnal, produced or growing in autumn", 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: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "शारदा" is शारद + -आ: शारद means "Of or belonging to autumn, autumnal, produced or growing in autumn", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शारदा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शारदा (śāradā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
śāradā (ā), f., see below
śāradā f. a kind of Vinā or lute, L.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of Vinā or lute
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śāradā" is the feminine form of "śārada" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
śāradā (ā), f., see below
śāradā f. a kind of Vinā or lute, L.
N. of two plants (= brāhmī and sārivā), L.
N. of a Sarasvatī, Śukas.
of Durgā, BhP.
śārada mf(ī, or śāradī)n. (fr. śarad) produced or growing in autumn, autumnal, mature, AV. &c. &c.
(prob.) that which offers a shelter in autumn (against the overflowings of rivers; applied to puras or ‘castles’; others ‘rich in years’, ‘old’), RV. i, 131, 4; 174, 2; vi, 20, 10
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