As a deity name
Name 293 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 563 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
सुशीला · feminine
a female given name, Sushila or Susheela, from Sanskrit
सुशीला
well-behaved, virtuous, good-natured
Śabdasāgara also records: श्रीकृष्ण की आठ पटरानियों में से एक का नाम · राधा की एक अनुचरी का नाम
Cited formation "सुशीला" is सु- + शीला: शीला means "a female given name, Sheela or Sheila", and the prefix सु- forms good, easily. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "सुशीला" is सुशील + -आ: सुशील means "well-behaved, well-mannered, refined; gentlemanly", 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
Cited formation "सुशीला" is सुशील + -आ: सुशील means "well-behaved, well-mannered, refined; gentlemanly", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Feminine of Sanskrit सुशील (suśīla).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Recorded as a personal name: a wife of Kṛṣṇa
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "suśīlā" is the feminine form of "suśīla" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
su—śīlā (ā), f. N. of a wife of Kṛṣṇa, Hariv.
of a female attending on Rādhā, Pañcar.
of the wife of Yama, L.
of a daughter of Hari-svāmin, Cat.
su—śīla mfn. well-disposed, good-tempered, having an amiable disposition, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
tractable (as a cow), Yājñ.
Alternative readings
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