निचय
Sanskrit
Etymology
नि- (ni-) + चय (caya)
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /n̪i.t͡ɕɐ.jɐ/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈn̪i.t͡ɕɐ.jɐ/
Noun
निचय • (nicaya) m
- a heap, a pile, a mass
- निरीक्ष्य शुष्कदारुपर्णनिचयैर् वृक्षविवरमापूर्य अग्निमादीपायितुमारब्धः।
- nirīkṣya śuṣkadāruparṇanicayair vṛkṣavivaramāpūrya agnimādīpāyitumārabdhaḥ.
- Having glanced (this), he made a mass with dried wood and leaves and stuffed it into a tree fissure which he, then, began kindling
- quantity, store, provisions
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “निचय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0546.