As a Hindi name
छह
six
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit षष् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Old Hindi षट (ṣaṭa), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙 (cha), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀙 (*cha), 𑀱 (ṣa), from Sanskrit षष् (ṣáṣ), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ṣwáṭṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *šwáćš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Cognate with Marathi सहा (sahā), Gujarati છ (cha), B…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ṣaṣ mfn. pl. (prob. for orig. ṣakṣ; nom. acc. ṣaṭ instr. ṣaḍbhis dat. abl. ṣaḍbhyas, gen. ṣaṇṇām loc. ṣaṭsu; in comp. ṣaṣ becomes ṣaṭ before hard letters, ṣaḍ before soft, ṣo before d, which is changed into ḍ, and ṇ before nasals) six (with the counted object in apposition or exceptionally in gen. or ifc., e.g. ṣaḍ ṛtavah, or ṣaḍ ṛtunām, ‘the six seasons’, ṣaṭsu ṣatsu māseṣu, ‘at periods of six months’, Mn. viii, 403 at the end of a Bahuvrīhi compound it is declined like other words ending in ṣ, e. g. priya-ṣaṣas nom. pl. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 22 Schol.; among the words used as expressions for the number six (esp. in giving dates) are aṅga, darśana, tarka, rasa, ṛtu, vajrakoṇa, kārttikeya-mukha), RV. &c. &c.
(in gram.) a tech. N. for numerals ending in ṣ and n and words like kati, Pāṇ. i, 1, 24, 25
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
deserving mutilation (cheda)
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
chaidika mfn. deserving mutilation (cheda), Pāṇ. v, 1, 64
= chidrāṃśa, W.
chaidika m. (-kaḥ) A ratan, a cane. E. cheda cutting, ṭhañ aff.
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