As a deity name
Name 283 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 933 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 32 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 62 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
शिवा · noun · feminine
दुर्गा · पार्वती । गिरिजा · मुक्ति । मोक्ष — Śabdasāgara
शिवा · noun · feminine
श्रृगाल की बोली से शकुन विचारने की विद्या — Śabdasāgara
शिवा · śivā · s.f.
The wife of Śiva, the goddess Durgā, or Pārvatī, &c — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 735
Cited formation "शिवा" is शिव + -आ: शिव means "Shiva (the destroying and reproducing deity, third god of the Hindu trinity)", 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 "शिवा" is शिव + -आ: शिव means "Shiva (the destroying and reproducing deity, third god of the Hindu trinity)", 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 energy of Śiva personified as his wife (known as Durgā, Pārvatī &c.)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śivā" is the feminine form of "śiva" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
śivā f. Śiva's wife (also śivī) See śivā below
śivā f. the energy of Śiva personified as his wife (known as Durgā, Pārvatī &c.), Inscr.; Kāv.; Kathās.; Pur.
final emancipation (= mukti), Pur.
a euphemistic N. of a jackal (generally regarded as an animal of bad omen), GṛS.; Baudh.; MBh. &c.
N. of various plants (accord. to L. ‘Prosopis Spicigera or Mimosa Suma; Terminalia Chebula or Citrina, Emblica Officinalis; Jasminum Auriculatum; turmeric; Dūrvā grass &c.’)
śiva mf(ā)n. (according to Uṇ. i, 153, fr. √ 1. śī, ‘in whom all things lie’; perhaps connected with √ śvi cf. śavas, śiśvi) auspicious, propitious, gracious, favourable, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly, dear (˚vam ind. kindly, tenderly), RV. &c. &c.
happy, fortunate, BhP.
Alternative readings
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