As a deity name
Name 165 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 414 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 479 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 459 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
सुखद · adj
[वि॰ स्त्री॰ सुखदा] सुख देनेवाला । आनंद देनेवाला । सुखदायी । आरामदेह — Śabdasāgara
सुखद · noun · masculine
विष्णु का स्थान । विष्णु का आसन · विष्णु · संगीत में एक प्रकार का ताल — Śabdasāgara
सुखद · sukha-da · adj.
See s.v. sukh — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 666
सुखद
pleasant; comforting
Cited formation "सुखद" is सु- + खद: खद means "मुसलमान ।—(डि॰)", and the prefix सु- forms good, easily. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सुखद — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit सुखद (sukhada), from सुख (sukha, “happiness”) + -द (-da, “giving”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sukha—da mf(ā)n. giving pleasure or delight, Kāv.; VarBṛS.
sukha—da m. N. of Viṣṇu, MBh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
giving pleasure or delight
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sukhada" is the vocative of "sukhadā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
sukha—da mf(ā)n. giving pleasure or delight, Kāv.; VarBṛS.
sukha—da m. N. of Viṣṇu, MBh.
a partic. class of deceased ancestors, MārkP.
(in music) a kind of measure, Saṃgīt.
sukha—da n. the abode of Viṣṇu, L.
sukha—dā (ā), f. Prosopis Spicigera or Mimosa Suma, L.
an Apsaras, L.
Alternative readings
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