As a deity name
Name 201 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 799 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
सुमुखी · noun · feminine
वह स्त्री जिसका मुख सुंदर हो । सुंदर मुखवाली स्त्री · दर्पण । आईना · संगीत में एक प्रकार की मूर्छना — Śabdasāgara
सुमुखी · su-mukhī · s.f.
A handsome woman ( = su-mukhā); a species of the tri-shṭubh metre — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 677
Cited formation "सुमुखी" is सुमुख + -ई: सुमुख means "A good or beautiful mouth", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "सुमुखी" is सुमुख + -ई: सुमुख means "A good or beautiful mouth", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "सुमुखी" is सुमुख + -ई: सुमुख means "A good or beautiful mouth", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a handsome woman
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sumukhī" is the feminine form of "sumukha" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Dictionary citations
su—mukhī (ī), f. a handsome woman, W.
a mirror, L.
a kind of metre, Ked.
(in music) a partic. Mūrchanā, Saṃgīt.
Clitoria Ternatea, L.
su—mukha n. a good or beautiful mouth, Pañcat.
a bright face (instr. = ‘cheerfully’), Kām.
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