As a Hindi name
ताड़का · noun · feminine
एक राक्षसी जिसे विश्वामित्र की आज्ञा से श्री रामचंद्र ने मारा था — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "ताडका" is ताड़क + -आ: ताड़क means "Reprover, corrector, punisher, chastiser", 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: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "ताडका" is ताड़क + -आ: ताड़क means "Reprover, corrector, punisher, chastiser", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the large dark-green pumpkin
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tāḍakā" is the feminine form of "tāḍaka" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "tāḍaka" is derived from "tāḍa" with the ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
tāḍa mfn. (√ taḍ) ‘beating’, see ghaṇṭā-
tāḍa m. a blow, AV. xix, 32, 2
tāḍaka m. a murderer, Vcar. xviii, 57
a kind of key, Divyāv. xxxvii
Related forms
Dictionary citations
tāḍakā f. N. of a Yakṣiṇī (changed into a Rākṣasī by Agastya for having disturbed his devotions, afterwards killed by Rāma), R. i, 26, 26 ff. (R. G. 27, 25 ff.); Hariv. 218; Ragh. xi, 14 ff.; VāyuP. ii, 6, 72 f. (wife of Mārīca)
the large dark-green pumpkin, Npr.
tā(ṭa)ḍakā 1 N. of a female fiend, daughter of Suketu, wife of Sunda and mother of Mārīca. [She was changed into a fiend by the sage Agastya whose devotions she had disturbed. She was killed by Rāma when she began to disturb the sacrificial rites of Viśvāmitra. Rāma was first unwilling to bend his bow against a woman, but the sage overcame his scruples, see R. 11. 20]. 2 The large dark-green pumpkin.
tāḍakā f. (-kā) A female demon, killed by RĀMA.
tāḍaka m. a murderer, Vcar. xviii, 57
a kind of key, Divyāv. xxxvii
tāḍa mfn. (√ taḍ) ‘beating’, see ghaṇṭā-
tāḍa m. a blow, AV. xix, 32, 2
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