As a deity name
Name 436 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
शूद्रा · noun · feminine
शूद्र जाति की स्त्री । शूद्राणी — Śabdasāgara
शूद्रा · śūdrā · s.f.
A woman of the Śūdra caste; the wife of a Śūdra — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 736
Cited formation "शूद्रा" is शूद्र + -आ: शूद्र means "a Shudra", 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 "शूद्रा" is शूद्र + -आ: शूद्र means "a Shudra", 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
a woman of the fourth class or caste, &c. &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śūdrā" is the feminine form of "śūdra" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
śūdrā f. a woman of the fourth class or caste, AV. &c. &c.
N. of a daughter of Raudrāśva, Hariv.
śūdrā A woman of the Śūdra tribe. Comp. — bhāryaḥ one who has a Śūdra woman for his wife. — vedanaṃ marrying a Śūdra woman. — sutaḥ the son of a Śūdra woman. (the father being of any caste).
śūdra m. (of doubtful derivation) a Śūdra, a man of the fourth or lowest of the four original classes or castes (whose only business, accord. to Mn. i, 91, was to serve the three higher classes; in RV. ix, 20, 12, the Śūdra is said to have been born from the feet of Puruṣa, q.v.; in Mn. i, 87 he is fabled to have sprung from the same part of the body of Brahmā, and he is regarded as of higher rank than the present low and mixed castes so numerous throughout India; kevala-ś˚, a pure Ś˚), RV. &c. &c. (IW. 212 &c.)
a man of mixed origin, L.
Alternative readings
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