Salavrika, Sālāvṛka, Shalavrika, Śālāvṛka, Shala-vrika, Sala-vrika: 9 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Sālāvṛka and Śālāvṛka can be transliterated into English as Salavrka or Salavrika or Shalavrika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
General definition (in Hinduism)
Source: archive.org: Vedic index of Names and SubjectsSālāvṛka (सालावृक) is found twice in the Rigveda apparently denoting the ‘hyaena’ or ‘wild dog’. This sense also seems appropriate in the later narrative of the destruction of the Yatis by Indra, who is said to have handed them over to the Sālāvṛkas. Sālāvṛkeya is a variant form of the same word, meaning literally ‘descendant of a Sālāvṛka’. The feminine is Sālāvṛkī, but in the Taittirīya-saṃhitā it appears as Salāvṛkī. Cf. Tarakṣu.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚālāvṛka (शालावृक).—
1) a dog; सिंहानां च सुखेन मूर्धसु पदं धास्यन्ति शालावृकाः (siṃhānāṃ ca sukhena mūrdhasu padaṃ dhāsyanti śālāvṛkāḥ) Bv.1.72.
2) a wolf.
3) a deer.
4) a cat.
5) a jackal.
6) a monkey.
Derivable forms: śālāvṛkaḥ (शालावृकः).
Śālāvṛka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śālā and vṛka (वृक).
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Sālāvṛka (सालावृक).—see शालावृक (śālāvṛka); वृकसालावृकादिभ्यो भयमाशंसमानः (vṛkasālāvṛkādibhyo bhayamāśaṃsamānaḥ) Bhāgavata 5.8.12; 8.2.22.
Derivable forms: sālāvṛkaḥ (सालावृकः).
Sālāvṛka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sālā and vṛka (वृक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚālāvṛka (शालावृक).—m.
(-kaḥ) 1. A monkey. 2. A dog. 3. A jackal. 4. A deer. 5. A cat. 6. A wolf. E. śālā a house, vṛka a wolf.
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Sālāvṛka (सालावृक).—m.
(-kaḥ) 1. A dog. 2. A wolf. 3. A jackal. 4. A hyena. 5. A cruel man. E. sālā a house and vṛka a wolf; more usually śālāvṛka .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚālāvṛka (शालावृक).—m. 1. a jackal, [Draupadīpramātha] 6, 8. 2. a monkey. 3. a cat. 4. a dog. 5. a deer.
— Cf. [Gothic.] vulfs; [Anglo-Saxon.] wulf; [Latin] lupus.
Śālāvṛka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śālā and vṛka (वृक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚālāvṛka (शालावृक).—[masculine] cat (cf. sālāvṛka).
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Sālāvṛka (सालावृक).—[masculine] a wolf or some other beast of prey.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śālāvṛka (शालावृक):—[=śālā-vṛka] [from śālā > śāla] m. ‘h°-wolf’, a dog, cat, jackal etc., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (cf. śālāvṛka).
2) Sālāvṛka (सालावृक):—[=sālā-vṛka] [from sālā > sāla] m. (in later language mostly śālā-vṛka) ‘house-wolf (?)’, a kind of wolf or hyena or jackal or similar animal, [Ṛg-veda]; etc.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śālāvṛka (शालावृक):—[śālā-vṛka] (kaḥ) 1. m. A monkey; a dog; jackal; deer; cat.
2) Sālāvṛka (सालावृक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. A dog, a wolf, a jackal.
[Sanskrit to German]
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 corpusŚālāvṛka (ಶಾಲಾವೃಕ):—
1) [noun] a dog.
2) [noun] a fox.
3) [noun] a jackal.
4) [noun] a cat.
5) [noun] a deer.
6) [noun] a monkey.
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Sālāvṛka (ಸಾಲಾವೃಕ):—
1) [noun] a dog.
2) [noun] a monkey.
3) [noun] a jackal.
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)
Partial matches: Vrika, Shala, Cala.
Full-text: Salavriki.
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