As a Hindi name
सूचिका · noun · feminine
सूई · हाथी की सूँड़ । हस्तिशुंड · एक अप्सरा का नाम — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "सूचिका" is सूचिक + -आ: सूचिक means "सिलाई के द्वारा जीविका निर्वाह करनेवाला, दरजी । सौचिक", 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 "सूचिका" is सूचिक + -आ: सूचिक means "सिलाई के द्वारा जीविका निर्वाह करनेवाला, दरजी । सौचिक", 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 needle
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M1 · same meaning "sūcikā" is the feminine form of "sūcika" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "sūcikā" is the feminine form of "sūcaka" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
M3 · meaning shifts "sūcika" is derived from "sūci" with the ṭhan/ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
sūci or sūcī, f. (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in R. once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surgery’, ‘a magnet’ &c.), RV. &c. &c.; the sharp point or tip of anything or any pointed object, Kāv.; Car.; BhP.; a rail or balustrade, Divyāv.; a small door-bolt, L.; ‘sharp file or column’, a kind of military array (accord. to Kull. on Mn. vii, 187, ‘placing the sharpest and most active soldiers in front’), Mn.; MBh.; Kām.; an index, table of contents (in books printed in India; cf. -pattra below); a triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet, Col.; a cone, pyramid, ib.; (in astron.) the earth's disc in computing eclipses (or ‘the corrected diameter of the earth’), Sūryas.; gesticulation, dramatic action, L.; a kind of coitus, L.; sight, seeing (= dṛṣṭi), L.; m. (only sūci) the son of Niṣāda and a Vaiśyā, L. a maker of winnowing baskets &c. (cf. sūnā), L.
sūci f. (-ciḥ-cī) 1 A needle. 2 Piercing, perforating. 3 Indication of a passion or feeling by signs, gesture, gesticulation. 4 A mode of dancing. 5 A mode of array, a sharp file or column. 6 A triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced to the point of meeting. 7 A cone, a pyramid. 8 (In astronomy,) The earth's disc in computing eclipses. 9 An index, a catalogue. E. sūca to make known, aff. in, and ṅīṣ optionally added; or siva to sew, &c., Uṇādi aff. caṭa; see sūca.
sūcika m. one who lives by his needle, a tailor &c. (cf. saucika), VarBṛS.
sūcika m. (-kaḥ) A tailor. f. (-kā) 1 An elephant's trunk. 2 A needle. E. sūci a needle, ṭhak aff., or kan added to the last.
M3 · meaning shifts "sūcaka" is derived from "sūca" with the ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
sūca mf(ā)n. pointing out, indicating &c. (ifc.), Jātakam.
sūca m. a pointed shoot or blade of Kuśa grass (= darbhāṅkura), L.
sūcaka mf(ikā)n. pointing out, indicating, showing, designating, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
pointing to (acc.), Hariv.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
sūcikā (ā), f., see next.
sūcikā f. a needle, L.
an elephant's trunk or proboscis, L.
Pandanus Odoratissimus, L.
N. of an Apsaras (cf. śūcikā), L.
sūcika m. one who lives by his needle, a tailor &c. (cf. saucika), VarBṛS.
sūcika m. (-kaḥ) A tailor. f. (-kā) 1 An elephant's trunk. 2 A needle. E. sūci a needle, ṭhak aff., or kan added to the last.
sūcaka mf(ikā)n. pointing out, indicating, showing, designating, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
pointing to (acc.), Hariv.
sūci or sūcī, f. (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in R. once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surgery’, ‘a magnet’ &c.), RV. &c. &c.; the sharp point or tip of anything or any pointed object, Kāv.; Car.; BhP.; a rail or balustrade, Divyāv.; a small door-bolt, L.; ‘sharp file or column’, a kind of military array (accord. to Kull. on Mn. vii, 187, ‘placing the sharpest and most active soldiers in front’), Mn.; MBh.; Kām.; an index, table of contents (in books printed in India; cf. -pattra below); a triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet, Col.; a cone, pyramid, ib.; (in astron.) the earth's disc in computing eclipses (or ‘the corrected diameter of the earth’), Sūryas.; gesticulation, dramatic action, L.; a kind of coitus, L.; sight, seeing (= dṛṣṭi), L.; m. (only sūci) the son of Niṣāda and a Vaiśyā, L. a maker of winnowing baskets &c. (cf. sūnā), L.
sūci f. (-ciḥ-cī) 1 A needle. 2 Piercing, perforating. 3 Indication of a passion or feeling by signs, gesture, gesticulation. 4 A mode of dancing. 5 A mode of array, a sharp file or column. 6 A triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced to the point of meeting. 7 A cone, a pyramid. 8 (In astronomy,) The earth's disc in computing eclipses. 9 An index, a catalogue. E. sūca to make known, aff. in, and ṅīṣ optionally added; or siva to sew, &c., Uṇādi aff. caṭa; see sūca.
sūca mf(ā)n. pointing out, indicating &c. (ifc.), Jātakam.
sūca m. a pointed shoot or blade of Kuśa grass (= darbhāṅkura), L.
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