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yakshini

yakshini noun: a female yaksha.

Noun

yakshini (plural yakshinis)

  1. (Hinduism) A female yaksha.
    • There is also the Yakshini; who lies in wait for men and arouses their passions, with the ultimate object of delivering them over to demons or of feeding upon them as a vampire.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 202

yakshini meaning in Hindi

yakshini in Hindi

yakshini, a female yaksha; wife of a yaksha
यक्षिणी yakṣiṇī, यक्षी yakṣī

Forms of yakshini

pluralyakshinis

Origin of yakshini

Borrowed from Sanskrit यक्षिणी (yakṣiṇī, feminine of यक्ष (yakṣa)).

Questions about yakshini

What does yakshini mean?
Yakshini means a female yaksha.
What is yakshini in Hindi?
Yakshini in Hindi is यक्षिणी (yakṣiṇī), यक्षी (yakṣī). See Yakshini meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is yakshini?
Yakshini is a noun.
What is the plural of yakshini?
The plural of yakshini is yakshinis.

Words near yakshini in the dictionary

  1. yaks
  2. yaks on
  3. yaksha
  4. yakshas
  5. yakshi
  6. yakshini
  7. yakshinis
  8. yakshis
  9. yakskin
  10. yakskins
  11. Yakthung

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yakshini (page history and authors); यक्षिणी (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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