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आर्यिका (AryikA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आर्यिका
f.
N.
of a Nakṣatra,
L.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
आर्यिका
स्त्री*
- "आर्या+कन् ह्रस्वः, इत्वम्"
आदरणीय महिला
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
āryikā (Skt. Gr. and lex.
f. to Skt. āryaka), a venerable woman, used of Buddhist nuns: °kā-saṃghaḥ (read as cpd.) Bhīk 〔17b.1 and ff.〕
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
āryikā, cf. Prakrit āyikā (EI 20, 28), the grandmother
‘father's mother’
mentioned side by side with mahāmātṛkā,
‘mother's mother’ (Select Inscriptions, p. 225).
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
आर्य्यिका,
स्त्री,
(आर्य्य + स्वार्थे कन् + अत इत्वं ।)श्रेष्ठा स्त्री इति वोपदेवः