As a Hindi name
कुठारिका · noun · feminine
कुल्हाड़ी — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "कुठारिका" is कुठारिक + -आ: कुठारिक means "संज्ञा पु॰ [सं॰] लकड़ी काटकर जीविका अर्जित करनेवाला । लकड़हारा", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "कुठारिका" is कुठारिक + -आ: कुठारिक means "संज्ञा पु॰ [सं॰] लकड़ी काटकर जीविका अर्जित करनेवाला । लकड़हारा", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a similarly shaped instrument (used in surgery for scarification)
Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kuṭhārikā" is the feminine form of "kuṭhārika" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
kuṭhārikā f. a small axe, Bhartṛ. iii, 23
a similarly shaped instrument (used in surgery for scarification), Suśr.
N. of a woman g. śubhrādi.
kuṭhārikā A small axe.
kuṭhārikā f. (-kā) A small one or adze; also a similarly shaped instrument used in surgery for scarification. E. kan added to the preceding.
kuṭhārika m. a wood-cutter, Rājat.
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