As a deity name
Name 6 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 45 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 367 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 892 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
शुभा · feminine
a female given name, Shubha, from Sanskrit
शुभा
auspicious, propitious, favorable; good, pure
Śabdasāgara also records: शोभा । कांति । छवि · इच्छा
Platts (p. 721) also records: corr. of shubha, q.v
Cited formation "शुभा" is शुभ + -आ: शुभ means "auspicious, favorable, good", 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 "शुभा" is शुभ + -आ: शुभ means "auspicious, favorable, good", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Feminine of Sanskrit शुभ (śubha).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(only ) light, lustre, splendour, beauty
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M1 · same meaning "śubhā" is the instrumental of "śubh" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "śubhā" is the feminine form of "śubha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Related forms
Dictionary citations
śubhā (ā), f. (only L.) light, lustre, splendour, beauty
desire
Prosopis Spicigera or Mimosa Suma
white Dūrvā grass
= priyaṅgu
1. śubh (or 1. śumbh) cl. 1. Ā. or cl. 6. P. (Dhātup. xviii, 11; xxviii, 33) śobhate, śumbhati or śumbhati (ep. also śobhati, and Ved. śumbhate; 3. sg. śobhe, RV.; pf. śuśobha, śuśubhe, MBh. &c.; śuśumbha Gr.; aor., aśubhat, aśobhiṣṭa, aśumbhīt, ib.; p. śumbhāna, śubhāna, RV.; fut. śobhitā or śumbhitā Gr.; śobhiṣyati, MBh.; śumbhiṣyati Gr.; inf. śubhe, śobhāse, RV.; śobhitum Gr.), to beautify, embellish, adorn, beautify one's self. (Ā.) look beautiful or handsome, shine, be bright or splendid; (with iva or yathā, ‘to shine or look like’; with na, ‘to look bad, have a bad appearance, appear to disadvantage’), RV. &c. &c.; to prepare, make fit or ready, (Ā.) prepare one's self, RV.; AV.; (śumbhate accord. to some) to flash or flit i.e. glide rapidly past or along, RV. (cf. śubhāna, śumbhamāna, and pra-√ śumbh); (śumbhati) wrongly for śundhati (to be connected with √ śudh, to purify), AV. vi, 155, 3; xii, 2, 40 &c.; (śumbhati) to harm, injure, Dhātup. xi, 42 (in this sense rather to be regarded as a second √ śumbh cf. √ 2. śumbh, ni-śumbh) : Pass. aor. aśobhi-tarām, Inscr. : Caus. śobhayati (aor. aśūśubhat ; cf. śobhita), to cause to shine, beautify, ornament, decorate, AV. &c. &c.; (śubhayati, ˚te) to ornament, decorate, (Ā.) decorate one's self, RV.; TBr.; (only pr. p. śubhayat), to fly rapidly along, RV. : Desid. śuśobhiṣate (accord. to Gr. also ˚ti, and śuśubhiṣati, ˚te), to wish to prepare or make ready, Nir. viii, 10 : Intens. śośubhyate (Gr. also śośobdhi), to shine brightly or intensely, be very splendid or beautiful, MBh.
2. śubh f. (dat. śubhe as inf.) splendour, beauty, ornament, decoration, RV.; AV.; VS.; TBr.
śubha mf(ā)n. splendid, bright, beautiful, handsome (often f. voc., śubhe, ‘fair one!’ in addressing a beautiful woman), Mn.; MBh.; Kāv. &c.
pleasant, agreeable, suitable, fit, capable, useful, good (applied to persons and things), ib.
Alternative readings
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