As a deity name
Name 854 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
स्रुवा · noun · feminine
लकड़ी की बनी हुई एक प्रकार की छोटी करछी जिससे हवनादि में घी की आहुति देते हैं । सुरवा · झरना । निर्झर (को॰) · सलई । शल्लकी वृक्ष — Śabdasāgara
स्रुवा · noun · masculine
विकंकत वृक्ष — Śabdasāgara
स्रुवा · sruvā · s.f.
A sacrificial ladle ( = sruv, or surwā) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 657
Cited formation "स्रुवा" is स्रुव + -आ: स्रुव means "(f. -ā), See surwā", 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 "स्रुवा" is स्रुव + -आ: स्रुव means "(f. -ā), See surwā", 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
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the ladle called Sruva
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sruvā" is the feminine form of "sruva" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
sruvā (ā), f., see below.
sruvā f. the ladle called Sruva, L.
Sanseviera Roxburghiana, L.
Boswellia Thurifera, L.
sruvaḥ -vā 1 A sacrificial ladle. 2 A Soma ladle. 3 A spring, cascade. Comp. — hastaḥ N. of Śiva.
sruva m. (cf. sruc) a small wooden ladle (with a double extremity, or two oval collateral excavations, used for pouring clarified melted butter into the large ladle or Sruk [see sruc]; sometimes also employed instead of the latter in libations), RV. &c. &c.
a sacrifice, oblation, L.
Alternative readings
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