शोभना

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Hindi

Etymology 1

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit शोभते (śóbhate). Doublet of सोहना (sohnā). Compare Gujarati શોભવું (śobhvũ), Marathi शोभणे (śobhṇe), Sindhi سوڀَڻُ / सोभणु, Punjabi ਸੋਭਣਾ (sobhṇā) / سوبھݨا (sobhṇā).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /ʃoːbʱ.nɑː/,

Verb

शोभना (śobhnā) (Urdu spelling شوبھنا)

  1. to be becoming
  2. to grace
  3. to befit, to beseem
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शोभना (śobhanā). By surface analysis, शोभन (śobhan) +‎ -आ ().

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /ʃoː.bʱə.nɑː/,

Noun

शोभना (śobhanāf (Urdu spelling شوبھنا)

  1. a beautiful woman
    Synonym: सुन्दरी (sundarī)
  2. turmeric
    Synonyms: हल्दी (haldī), हरिद्रा (haridrā)
  3. yellow pigment
Declension

Further reading

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From शोभन (śobhaná) +‎ -आ ().

Pronunciation

Noun

शोभना (śobhanā) stemf

  1. a beautiful women
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:सुन्दरी
  2. turmeric
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:हरिद्रा
  3. yellow pigment

Declension

Feminine ā-stem declension of शोभना (śobhanā)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative शोभना
śobhanā
शोभने
śobhane
शोभनाः
śobhanāḥ
Vocative शोभने
śobhane
शोभने
śobhane
शोभनाः
śobhanāḥ
Accusative शोभनाम्
śobhanām
शोभने
śobhane
शोभनाः
śobhanāḥ
Instrumental शोभनया / शोभना¹
śobhanayā / śobhanā¹
शोभनाभ्याम्
śobhanābhyām
शोभनाभिः
śobhanābhiḥ
Dative शोभनायै
śobhanāyai
शोभनाभ्याम्
śobhanābhyām
शोभनाभ्यः
śobhanābhyaḥ
Ablative शोभनायाः / शोभनायै²
śobhanāyāḥ / śobhanāyai²
शोभनाभ्याम्
śobhanābhyām
शोभनाभ्यः
śobhanābhyaḥ
Genitive शोभनायाः / शोभनायै²
śobhanāyāḥ / śobhanāyai²
शोभनयोः
śobhanayoḥ
शोभनानाम्
śobhanānām
Locative शोभनायाम्
śobhanāyām
शोभनयोः
śobhanayoḥ
शोभनासु
śobhanāsu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic
  • ²Brāhmaṇas

Further reading

  • Monier Williams (1899) “शोभना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1092.
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2025) “śobhanā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.