As a deity name
Name 25 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 301 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
सुनन्दा · su-nandā · s.f.
A woman; an epithet of Umā — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 688
Cited formation "सुनन्दा" is सु- + नन्दा: नन्दा means "Happiness, joy", and the prefix सु- forms good, easily. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "सुनन्दा" is सुनन्द + -आ: सुनन्द means "(f. -ā), Pleasing well, affording pleasure, delighting", 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 "सुनन्दा" is सुनन्द + -आ: सुनन्द means "(f. -ā), Pleasing well, affording pleasure, delighting", 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
a partic. Tithi, Sch.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sunandā" is the feminine form of "sunanda" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
su—nandā (ā), f. a partic. Tithi, VarBṛS., Sch.
Aristolochia Indica, L.
a white cow, L.
a partic. yellow pigment (= go-rocanā), L.
a woman, L.
su—nanda mfn. pleasing well, delighting, W.
su—nanda m. a palace of a partic. form (v.l. sundara), L.
Alternative readings
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