Yamika, Yamikā, Yāmika, Yāmikā: 12 definitions
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Sanskrit dictionary
Yamikā (यमिका).—A kind of hiccough.
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Yāmika (यामिक).—A watchman, one on duty or guard at night; also यामिकभट (yāmikabhaṭa); यामिकाननुपमृद्य च मादृक् (yāmikānanupamṛdya ca mādṛk) N.5.11.
Derivable forms: yāmikaḥ (यामिकः).
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Yāmikā (यामिका).—
1) Night; सविता विधवति विधुरपि सवितरति दिनन्ति यामिन्यः । यामिनयन्ति दिनानि च सुखदुःखवशीकृते मनसि (savitā vidhavati vidhurapi savitarati dinanti yāminyaḥ | yāminayanti dināni ca sukhaduḥkhavaśīkṛte manasi) || K. P.1; Kirātārjunīya 11.48.
2) Turmeric.
See also (synonyms): yāminī.
Yāmika (यामिक).—adj. (not in this meaning Sanskrit or Pali; same meaning in Pali yāmakālika), lit. relating to a night-watch (yāma); of food or medicine, substantially to be applied at brief periods: Mahāvyutpatti 9437; (of medicine) Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 23b.1; Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.ii.16 ff. (i.iv.10 = yāme paribhoktavyaṃ).
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Yāmikā (यामिका).—(?) = Tibetan zug (meaning ? pain, torment? institution, founding?), in uddāna verse Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.72.6 yāmikāṃ (Index yamikā!) navikāṃ (nine) kṛtvā; uninterpretable to me.
Yāmikā (यामिका).—f.
(-kā) Night. E. yāma a watch, kan aff., fem. form.
Yāmika (यामिक).—i. e. yāma + ika, I. adj. One who announces the watches, [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 3, 63. Ii. f. kā, Night.
Yāmika (यामिक).—[adjective] keeping watch; [masculine] watchman, night-watcher.
1) Yamikā (यमिका):—[from yamaka > yam] f. ([scilicet] hikkā) a kind of hiccough, [Bhāvaprakāśa]
2) Yamika (यमिक):—[from yam] n. [dual number] (with agastyasya) Name of two Sāmans, [Ārṣeya-brāhmaṇa]
3) Yāmika (यामिक):—[from yā] a mfn. being on watch or guard
4) [v.s. ...] m. (also with puruṣa) a night-watcher, watchman, [Kādambarī; Naiṣadha-carita; Kathāsaritsāgara]
5) Yāmikā (यामिका):—[from yāmika > yā] f. = yāminī, night, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) Yāmika (यामिक):—b See p. 850, col. 1.
Yāmikā (यामिका):—(kā) 1. f. Night.
Yamika (यमिक):—n.: agastyasya yamike Name eines Sāman [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,237,b.]
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Yāmika (यामिक):—(von 3. yāma) adj. auf der Wache stehend: puruṣa so v. a. Nachtwächter [Kathāsaritsāgara 3, 63.] bhaṭa [Śabdakalpadruma] mit einem Citat der Prākīna. m. Nachtwächter, ein auf der Wache stehender Mann [Kathāsaritsāgara 122, 30. fg.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 173. 4, 515. 6, 77.]
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Yāmikā (यामिका):—f. = yāminī Nacht [WILSON] nach [ŚABDĀRTHAK.]
Yamika (यमिक):—n. agastyasya yamikai Name zweier Sāman.
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Yāmika (यामिक):——
1) Adj. auf der Wache stehend , die Wache habend. puruṣa m. oder bhaṭa m. = 2). vilāminī [Harṣacarita 92,17.] —
2) m. Nachtwächter , ein auf der Wache stechender Mann [Naiṣadhacarita 5,110.] [Vikramāṅkadevacarita 9,68.] [Kād. (1872) (Śaka_1793).197,16.] loka m. [2,56,17.(74,22).] Nom.abstr. yāmikatā f. [Vikramāṅkadevacarita 2,70.] —
3) f. yāmikā Nacht.
Yāmika (यामिक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Jāmiga.
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
Yāmika (ಯಾಮಿಕ):—[noun] a night watch-man.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Yāmika (यामिक):—n. watchman; guard; adj. → याम [yāma]
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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