As a deity name
Name 891 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
परिखा · noun · feminine
वह गहरा गड्ढा जो किसी नगर या दुर्ग के चारों ओर इसलिये खोदा जाता था कि शत्रु उसमें सहज में न घुस सकें । किसी नगर या दुर्ग को घेरनेवाली खाईं । खंदक । खाईं · तल या मूल (लाक्ष॰) — Śabdasāgara
परिखा · pari-khā · s.f.
Moat, ditch, trench or fosse round a town or fort — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 251
परिखा · feminine
moat
Cited formation "परिखा" is परि- + खा: खा means "खानेवाला । भक्षक । जैसे, शकरखा", and the prefix परि- forms around, fully, well. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(13) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "परिखा" is परिखना + -आ: परिखना means "स॰ [सं॰ परीक्षा] पहचानना । जाँचना । परीक्षा करना । इम्तहान करना", 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
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi परिखा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit परिखा (parikhā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
pari-khā f. (once ibc. ˚kha, BhP.) a moat, ditch, trench or fosse round a town or fort (also applied to the sea surrounding the earth), Mn.; MBh.; Kāv. &c.
N. of a village in the North country g. palady-ādi (iv, 2, 110)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a moat, ditch, trench or fosse round a town or fort (also applied to the sea surrounding the earth), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "parikhā" is the nominative of "parikhan" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Dictionary citations
pari-khā f. (once ibc. ˚kha, BhP.) a moat, ditch, trench or fosse round a town or fort (also applied to the sea surrounding the earth), Mn.; MBh.; Kāv. &c.
N. of a village in the North country g. palady-ādi (iv, 2, 110)
parikhā A moat, ditch, trench round a fort or town; R. 1. 30; 12. 66.
parikhā f. (-khā) A moat, a ditch surrounding a fort, &c. E. pari round, khana to dig, aff. ḍa.
pari-√ khan (only ind.p. -khāya), to dig round, dig up, ĀśvGṛ.
Alternative readings
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