As a deity name
Name 901 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 665 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
वर्षा · noun · feminine
वह ऋतु जिसमें पानी बरसता है · पानी बरसने की क्रिया या भाव । वृष्टि — Śabdasāgara
वर्षा · varshā · s.m.
& f. = S ورشا वर्षा varshā, s.f. The rains, rainy season, monsoon (the third of the six seasons; it extends from the 15th of Asāṛh to the 15th of Bhādoṅ, or Áśvin according to others; but the duration of the monsoon is longer, being reckoned from Asāṛh to Kārttik, i.e. from the middle of June to the beginning of October) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1188
वर्षा · varshā · s.f.
= H ورشا वर्षा varshā [S. वर्षाः, nom. pl.of varsha, and of varshā], s.m. & f. The rains, rainy season, monsoon (the third of the six seasons; it extends from the 15th of Asāṛh to the 15th of Bhādoṅ, or Áśvin according to others; but the duration of the monsoon is longer, being reckoned from Asāṛh to Kārttik, i.e. from the middle of June to the beginning of October) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1188
वर्षा · feminine
a female given name, Varsha, from Sanskrit
वर्षा · feminine
rain; rainfall
Cited formation "वर्षा" is वर्ष + -आ: वर्ष means "annum, year", 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 "वर्षा" is वर्षना + -आ: वर्षना means "See the pop. form barasnā", 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
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वर्षा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit वर्षा (varṣā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
varṣā (ā), f. See p. 927, col. 2.
varṣā f. rain, ŚāṅkhGṛ.; VarBṛS.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
pl. (exceptionally sg.) the rains, rainy season, monsoon (lasting two months accord. to the Hindū division of the year into six seasons [see ṛtu], the rains falling in some places…
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M1 · same meaning "varṣā" is the feminine form of "varṣa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "varṣā" is the nominative of "varṣiman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
varṣā (ā), f. See p. 927, col. 2.
varṣā f. rain, ŚāṅkhGṛ.; VarBṛS.
pl. (exceptionally sg.) the rains, rainy season, monsoon (lasting two months accord. to the Hindū division of the year into six seasons [see ṛtu], the rains falling in some places during Śrāvaṇa and Bhādra, and in others during Bhādra and Āśvina, and in others for a longer period), TS. &c. &c.
Medicago Esculenta, L. [cf. Gk. ἐέρσαι, ‘rain-drops’.]
varṣā (Usually f. pl.) 1 The rainy season, the rains, the monsoon; grīṣme paṃcāgnimadhyastho varṣāsu sthaṃḍileśayaḥ Y. 3. 52; Bk. 7. 1. 2 Rain (sing. in this sense). Comp. — kālaḥ the rains, the rainy season; so varṣāsamayaḥ. — kālīna a. belonging to or produced in the rainy season. — prabhaṃjanaḥ a high wind. — bhū m. 1 a frog. 2 a kind of insect (iṃdragopa). — bhūḥ, -bhvī f. 1 a female frog or a little frog. 2 hogweed. 3 an earth-worm. — rātraḥ 1 a night in the rainy season. 2 the rainy season.
varṣa mf(ā)n. (fr. √ vṛṣ) raining (ifc., e.g. kāma-v˚, raining according to one's wish), BhP.
varṣa m. and (older) n. (ifc. f(ā). ) rain, raining, a shower (either ‘of rain’, or fig. ‘of flowers, arrows, dust &c.’; also applied to seminal effusion), RV. &c. &c.
varṣiman m. (prob. in some of the following senses connected with √ vṛ, ‘to cover’) height, length, width, breadth, VS.
varṣiman [cf. Slav. vrǐchǔ Lith. virshùs.]
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