feminine
a demoness
Yakkhinī (feminine) [from yakkha, perhaps corresponding directly to Vedic yakṣiṇī, feminine of yakṣin; adjective persecuting, taking vengeance, applied to Varuṇa at R̥V VII 884] a female yakkha, a vampire. Their character is usually fierce and full of spite and vengeance, addicted to man and beast murder (cf. yakkha 2). They are very much like petīs in habits. With their names cf. those of the yakkhas, as enumerated under yakkha 4. — Vin III 37; IV 20 (where sexual intercourse with y. is forbidden to the bhikkhus); S I 209 (Piyaṅkara-mātā); Ja I 240 (as a goat), 395 f.; II 127; III 511; V 21 (eating a baby), 209 (eaten by a y.); VI 336 (desirous of eating a child); Vism 121 (singing), 382 (four: Piyaṅkara-mātā, Uttaramātā, Phussa-mittā, Dhammaguttā), 665 (in simile); Mhv 7.11 (Kuvaṇṇā, i.e. bad-coloured); 10, 53 (Cetiyā); 12, 21 (Hāritā "Charming" or from harita "green" (?)); Dhp-a I 47; II 35, 36 (a y. in the form of a cow, eating 4 people in successive births). Note: A by-form of yakkhinī is yakkhī. -bhāva the state of being a yakkhinī Ja I 240; II 128 (yakkhini°).
(fem, fem, from yakkha) female daemon female daemon Construction: √yakkh + a + inī yakkha + inī