As a deity name
Name 30 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
सुधा · noun · feminine
अमृत । पीयुष । अमी · मकरंद · गंगा — Śabdasāgara
सुधा · su-dhā · s.f.
The beverage of the gods, nectar; ambrosia; the nectar or honey of flowers; juice — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 646
सुधा · feminine
a female given name, Sudha, from Sanskrit
सुधा · feminine
nectar; ambrosia
Cited formation "सुधा" is सु- + धा: धा means "ब्रह्मा", and the prefix सु- forms good, easily. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "सुधा" is सुध + -आ: सुध means "remembrance, memory", 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
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सुधा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit सुधा (sudhā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. su—dhā f. (√ 1. dhā; for 2. su-dhā &c. See s.v.) welfare, ease, comfort, AV.; AitBr.
2. su-dhā f. (fr. 5. su-√ dhe; for 1. su-dhā, ‘welfare’, see col. 2) ‘good drink’, the beverage of the gods, nectar (cf. 2. dhātu, p. 514), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘good drink’, the beverage of the gods, nectar (cf. 2. dhātu, p. 514), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sudhā" is the nominative of "sudhāman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. su—dhā f. (√ 1. dhā; for 2. su-dhā &c. See s.v.) welfare, ease, comfort, AV.; AitBr.
2. su-dhā f. (fr. 5. su-√ dhe; for 1. su-dhā, ‘welfare’, see col. 2) ‘good drink’, the beverage of the gods, nectar (cf. 2. dhātu, p. 514), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
the nectar or honey of flowers, L.
juice, water, L.
milk (also pl.), VarBṛS.; Pañcar.
su—dhāman m. N. of various Ṛṣis, Pur.
of a son of Ghṛta-pṛṣṭha, BhP. : of a mountain (v.l. -dhāma), VP.
Alternative readings
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