As a deity name
Name 516 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
शिष्या · noun · feminine
एक वृत्त का नाम जिसके प्रत्येक चरण में सात गुरु अक्षर होते हैं । इसका दूसरा नाम 'शीर्षरूपक' भी है · छात्रा । विद्यार्थिनी — Śabdasāgara
शिष्या
student, disciple (feminine)
Cited formation "शिष्या" is शिष्य + -आ: शिष्य means "disciple, student", 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
Cited formation "शिष्या" is शिष्य + -आ: शिष्य means "disciple, student", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शिष्या — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit शिष्या (śiṣyā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a pupil, scholar, disciple (ā a female pupil), &c. — feminine form of śiṣya
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M1 · same meaning "śiṣyā" is the feminine form of "śiṣya" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "śiṣya" is derived from "śiṣ" with the yat suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. śiṣ cl. 1. P. śeṣati, to hurt, injure, kill, Dhātup. xvii, 36.
2. śiṣ cl. 7. P. (Dhātup. xxix, 14) śinaṣṭi (in TBr. also śiṃṣati, in later lang. pr. p. śeṣat; Impv. śiṇḍḍhi or śiṇḍhi, Kāś.; Pāṇ. viii, 4, 65; pf. śiśeṣa Gr.; śiśiṣe, Br.; aor. aśiṣat, ib.; Prec. śiṣyāt Gr.; fut. śeṣṭā, ib.; śekṣyati, ˚te, Br.; ind.p. śiṣṭvā, ĀśvŚr.; śiṣya, -śeṣam, Br. &c.), to leave, leave remaining, TBr.; ŚrS. (accord. to Dhātup. also ‘to distinguish’) : Pass. śiṣyate, to be left, remain (with na, ‘to be lacking’), AV. &c. &c.: Caus. (or cl. 10.; see Dhātup. xxxiv, 11) śeṣayati, ˚te (aor. aśīśiṣat), to cause or allow to remain, leave, spare, MBh.; Kāv. &c.: Desid. śiśikṣati Gr.: Intens. śeśiṣyate, śeśeṣṭi, ib.
śiṣya &c. See 1. śiṣṭa p. 1076, col. 3, and p. 1077, col. 1.
śiṣya mfn. to be taught (see a-ś˚; a-niṣpanne niṣpanna-śabdaḥ śiṣyaḥ, ‘it must be taught that the word niṣpanna has the meaning of a-niṣpanna’ Vārtt. on Pāṇ. iii, 2, 132)
Related forms
Dictionary citations
śiṣya &c. See 1. śiṣṭa p. 1076, col. 3, and p. 1077, col. 1.
śiṣya mfn. to be taught (see a-ś˚; a-niṣpanne niṣpanna-śabdaḥ śiṣyaḥ, ‘it must be taught that the word niṣpanna has the meaning of a-niṣpanna’ Vārtt. on Pāṇ. iii, 2, 132)
1. śiṣ cl. 1. P. śeṣati, to hurt, injure, kill, Dhātup. xvii, 36.
2. śiṣ cl. 7. P. (Dhātup. xxix, 14) śinaṣṭi (in TBr. also śiṃṣati, in later lang. pr. p. śeṣat; Impv. śiṇḍḍhi or śiṇḍhi, Kāś.; Pāṇ. viii, 4, 65; pf. śiśeṣa Gr.; śiśiṣe, Br.; aor. aśiṣat, ib.; Prec. śiṣyāt Gr.; fut. śeṣṭā, ib.; śekṣyati, ˚te, Br.; ind.p. śiṣṭvā, ĀśvŚr.; śiṣya, -śeṣam, Br. &c.), to leave, leave remaining, TBr.; ŚrS. (accord. to Dhātup. also ‘to distinguish’) : Pass. śiṣyate, to be left, remain (with na, ‘to be lacking’), AV. &c. &c.: Caus. (or cl. 10.; see Dhātup. xxxiv, 11) śeṣayati, ˚te (aor. aśīśiṣat), to cause or allow to remain, leave, spare, MBh.; Kāv. &c.: Desid. śiśikṣati Gr.: Intens. śeśiṣyate, śeśeṣṭi, ib.
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