vaDukA · feminine
vadhukā (= Pali id. , Skt. vadhū; see also vadhūkā), young woman, young matron : na ca dārikāṃ vā kanyāṃ vā vadhukāṃ vā … SP 277.3 (prose); kuleṣu cāpi °kāṃ ( WT with v.l. °kāḥ) kumāryaś ca vivarjayet 279.12 ( vs ); bride , mi (= me) … vadhukāṃ vṛṇīṣva LV 139.16 ( vs ); daughter-in-law , °kāye Sudarśanāye (in reference to Alindā , her mother-in-law) Mv ii.445.12 ; 446.19 (both prose); śreṣṭhi-°kā Av i.255.9 (prose).
a young wife; a daughter-in-law
Vadhukā (feminine) [from vadhū] a daughter-in-law, a young wife A II 78; Dhp-a III 260.
【陰】 少妻,媳婦。
(fem, fem, dimin of vadhū) young daughter-in-law; young wife; young woman young wife, daughter-in-law Construction: vadhū + kā