शोभना

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/, [ʃoːbʱ.näː]

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/, [ʃoː.bʱɐ.näː]

Noun

शोभना • (śobhanāf (Urdu spelling شوبھنا)

  1. a beautiful woman
    Synonym: सुन्दरी (sundarī)
  2. turmeric
    Synonyms: हल्दी (haldī), हरिद्रा (haridrā)
  3. yellow pigment
Declension
Declension of शोभना (fem ā-stem)
singular plural
direct शोभना
śobhanā
शोभनाएँ
śobhanāẽ
oblique शोभना
śobhanā
शोभनाओं
śobhanāõ
vocative शोभना
śobhanā
शोभनाओ
śobhanāo

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
singular dual plural
nominative शोभना (śobhanā) शोभने (śobhane) शोभनाः (śobhanāḥ)
accusative शोभनाम् (śobhanām) शोभने (śobhane) शोभनाः (śobhanāḥ)
instrumental शोभनया (śobhanayā)
शोभना¹ (śobhanā¹)
शोभनाभ्याम् (śobhanābhyām) शोभनाभिः (śobhanābhiḥ)
dative शोभनायै (śobhanāyai) शोभनाभ्याम् (śobhanābhyām) शोभनाभ्यः (śobhanābhyaḥ)
ablative शोभनायाः (śobhanāyāḥ)
शोभनायै² (śobhanāyai²)
शोभनाभ्याम् (śobhanābhyām) शोभनाभ्यः (śobhanābhyaḥ)
genitive शोभनायाः (śobhanāyāḥ)
शोभनायै² (śobhanāyai²)
शोभनयोः (śobhanayoḥ) शोभनानाम् (śobhanānām)
locative शोभनायाम् (śobhanāyām) शोभनयोः (śobhanayoḥ) शोभनासु (śobhanāsu)
vocative शोभने (śobhane) शोभने (śobhane) शोभनाः (śobhanāḥ)
  • 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.