Alternative spellings of this word include Chhidura.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Chidura (छिदुर).—a. [chid-kurac]

1) Cutting, dividing, removing; Śiśupālavadha 6.8.

2) Easily breaking.

3) Broken, disordered, deranged; संलक्ष्यते न च्छिदुरोऽपि हारः (saṃlakṣyate na cchiduro'pi hāraḥ) R.16.62.

4) Hostile.

5) Roguish, knavish.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Chidura (छिदुर).—mfn.

(-raḥ-rā-raṃ) 1. Cutting, dividing, what cuts or divides. 2. A knave. 3. Hostile, a foe. E. chid to cut, and kurac aff.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Chidura (छिदुर).—[chid + ura], adj., f. rā, What may be torn easily, [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 16, 62.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Chidura (छिदुर).—[adjective] easily breaking, decreasing; destroying (—°).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Chidura (छिदुर):—[from chid] mf(ā, [Pāṇini 3-2, 162])n. cutting, dividing, [Horace H. Wilson]

2) [v.s. ...] easily breaking, [Raghuvaṃśa xvi, 62; Harṣacarita vi]

3) [v.s. ...] extinguishing, [Śiśupāla-vadha vi, 8]

4) [v.s. ...] decreasing, [Vāmana’s Kāvyālaṃkāravṛtti v, 2, 40]

5) [v.s. ...] annihilating (ifc.), [ib.]

6) [v.s. ...] hostile, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

7) [v.s. ...] roguish, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Chidura (छिदुर):—[(raḥ-rā-raṃ) a.] Cutting, dividing.

[Sanskrit to German]

Chidura in German

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Chidura (ಛಿದುರ):—[adjective] having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass; brittle.

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Chidura (ಛಿದುರ):—[noun] a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against or engages in antagonistic activities against another; a hostile person; an enemy.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Ends with: Samacchidura, Vicchidura.

Full-text: Chiduretara, Chittvara.

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