As a deity name
Name 208 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 425 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 528 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
चक्रिका · noun · feminine
घुटने पर की गोल हड्डी । चक्की · झुंड । समूह (को॰) · सेना (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
चक्रिका · noun · feminine
एक फूल का नाम — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "चक्रिका" is चक्रिक + -आ: चक्रिक means "चक्र धारण करनेवाला", 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 "चक्रिका" is चक्रिक + -आ: चक्रिक means "चक्र धारण करनेवाला", 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 troop, multitude
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "cakrikā" is the feminine form of "cakrika" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "cakrika" is derived from "cakri" with the ṭhan/ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
cakri mfn. (Pāṇ. iii, 2, 171, Vārtt. 3) doing, effecting (with acc.), active, RV.
(or cakrin?) N. of a man, Pravar. vii, 9 (cf. uru-cakri.)
cakrika m. a discus-bearer, Buddh.; L.
(= ˚kraka) Dolichos biflorus, Npr.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
cakrikā f. a troop, multitude, Rājat. iv, viii
a crooked or fraudulent device, v.
cakrikā f. See ˚kraka.
cakrikā f. (kā) The knee.
cakrika m. a discus-bearer, Buddh.; L.
(= ˚kraka) Dolichos biflorus, Npr.
cakri mfn. (Pāṇ. iii, 2, 171, Vārtt. 3) doing, effecting (with acc.), active, RV.
(or cakrin?) N. of a man, Pravar. vii, 9 (cf. uru-cakri.)
Alternative readings
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