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V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. स्त्रीstrīA woman; श्रुतं दृष्टं स्पृष्टं स्मृतमि नृणां ह्लादजननं न रत्नं स्त्रीभ्योऽन्यत् क्वचिदपि कृतं लोकपतिना ।…

    [स्त्यायेते शुक्रशोणिते यस्याम्]

    1. A woman; श्रुतं दृष्टं स्पृष्टं स्मृतमि नृणां ह्लादजननं न रत्नं स्त्रीभ्योऽन्यत् क्वचिदपि कृतं लोकपतिना । तदर्थं धर्मार्थो विभववरसौख्यानि च ततो गृहे लक्ष्म्यो मान्याः सततमबला मानविभवैः ॥ Subh. Ratn.
    2. A female of any animal; गजस्त्री, हरिणस्त्री etc.; स्त्रीणामशिक्षितपटुत्वममानुषीषु Ś.5.22.
    3. A wife; स्त्रीणां भर्ता धर्मदाराश्च पुंसाम् Māl.6.18; Me.28.
    4. A white ant.
    5. The Priyaṅgu plant.
    6. The feminine gender, or a word used in that gender; आपः स्त्रीभूम्नि Ak.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -आगारः, -रम् a harem, the women's apartments.

    • -अध्यक्षः a chamberlain.

    • -अभिगमनम् sexual intercourse.

    • -आजीवः

      1. one who lives by his wife.
      2. one who lives by keeping women for prostitution; Ms.11.63.
    • -करणम् sexual connection.

    • -कामः

      1. desire of intercourse with woman, fondness for women.
      2. desire of a wife.
    • -कार्यम्

      1. the business of women.
      2. attendance on women or women's apartments; वैदेहकानां स्त्रीकार्यं मागधानां वणिक्पथः Ms.1.47.
    • -कितवः a deceiver or seducer of women.

    • -कुमारम् a woman and child.

    • -कुसुमम् menses, the menstrual exeretion in women.

    • -कृतम् sexual connection.

    • -कोशः a dagger.

    • -क्षीरम् mother's milk; आरण्यानां च सर्वेषां मृगाणां माहिषं विना । स्त्रीक्षीरं चैव वर्ज्यानि... Ms.5.9.

    • -ग Adjective cohabiting with women.

    • -गवी a milch-cow.

    • -गुरुः a female Guru or priestess.

    • -गृहम् Equivalent to स्त्र्यगार quod vide, which see

    • -ग्राहिन् (in law) accepting the guardianship over a woman.

    • -घोषः dawn, day-break.

    • -घ्नः the murderer of a woman; Ms.9.232.

    • -चरितम्, -त्रम् the doing of women.

    • -चिह्नम्

      1. any mark or characteristic of the female sex.
      2. the female organ, vulva.
    • -चौरः a seducer of women, libertine.

    • -जननी a woman who brings forth only daughters; Ms.9.81.

    • -जातिः Feminine woman-kind, female sex.

    • -जितः a hen-pecked husband; स्त्रीजितस्पर्शमात्रेण सर्व पुण्यं विनश्यति Śabdak; मृष्यन्ति ये चोपपतिं स्त्रीजितानां च सर्वशः (तेषामन्नं न भुञ्जति) Ms.4.217.

    • -देहार्धः Name of Śiva.

    • -धनम् a woman's private property over which she exercises independent control; it is of six kinds: अध्यग्न्यध्यावहनिकं दत्तं च प्रीति- कर्मणि । भ्रातृमातृपितृप्राप्तं ष़ड्विधं स्त्रीधनं स्मृतम् ॥ or according to others: पितृमातृपतिभ्रातृदत्तमध्यग्न्युपायनम् । आधिवेदनिकाद्यं च स्त्रीधनं परिकीर्तितम्; see also अन्वाधेयम्, बन्धुदत्तम्, यौतकम्, सौदायिकम्, शुल्कम्, पारिणाय्यम्, लावण्यार्जितम् and पादवन्दनिकम्.

    • -धर्मः

      1. the duty of a woman or wife.
      2. the laws concerning women; Ms.1.114.
      3. menstruation.
      4. copulation.
    • -धर्मिणी a woman in her course; स्त्रीधर्मिणी वेपमाना शोणितेन समुक्षिता । एकवस्त्रा विकृष्टास्मि दुःखिता कुरुसंसदि ॥ Mb.3.12.62.

    • -धवः a man.

    • -ध्वजः

      1. the female of any animal.
      2. an elephant.
    • -नाथ Adjective one protected by a woman.

    • -निबन्धनम् a woman's peculiar sphere of action or province; domestic duty, housewifery.

    • -पण्योपजीविन् Masculine see स्त्र्याजीवः above.

    • -परः a womanlover, lecher, libertine.

    • -पिशाची a fiend-like wife.

    • -पुंस् a woman who had become a man.

    • -पुंसौ

      1. Masculine Dual
      2. wife and husband.
      3. male and female; स्त्रीपुंसावात्मभागौ ते भिन्नमूर्तेः सिसृक्षया Ku.2.7.
    • -पुंसलक्षणा a hermaphrodite.

    • -पुंधर्मः the law regulating the duties of man and wife.

    • -पुरम् the women's apartment.

    • -पुष्पम् the menstrual excretion.

    • -पूर्वः Equivalent to स्त्रीजितः quod vide, which see; स्त्रीपूर्वाः काण्डपृष्ठाश्च ...... (श्राद्धे नार्हन्ति) Mb.13.23.22.

    • -प्रत्ययः a feminine affix (in Grammar) -प्रसंगः (excessive) intercourse with women.

    • -प्रसूः Feminine a woman who brings forth only daughters; Y.1.73.

    • -प्रिय Adjective loved by women. (-यः) the mango tree.

    • -बन्धः the sexual union.

    • -बाध्यः one who suffers himself to be troubled by a woman.

    • -बुद्धिः

      1. Feminine
      2. the female understanding.
      3. the counsel of a woman, female advice; स्त्रीबुद्धिः प्रलयंगता (प्रलयावहा) Subhāṣ.
    • -भोगः sexual intercourse.

    • -मन्त्रः a female stratagem, woman's counsel.

    • -माया women's craft.

    • -मुखपः the Aśoka tree.

    • -यन्त्रम् a machine-like woman, machine in the form of a woman; स्त्रीयन्त्रं केन लोके विषममृ- तमयं धर्मनाशाय सृष्टम् Pt.1.191.

    • -रजस् menstruation.

    • -रञ्जनम् betel.

    • -रत्नम्

      1. an excellent woman; स्त्रीरत्नेषु ममोर्वशी प्रियतमा यूथे तवेयं वशा V.4.25.
      2. Name of Lakṣmī.
    • -राज्यम् the kingdom of women.

    • -लम्पट Adjective desirous of women.

    • -लिङ्गम्

      1. the feminine gender (in Grammar)
      2. any mark of the female sex (as breast etc.).
      3. the female organ.
    • -लौल्यम् fondness for women.

    • -वशः submissiveness to a wife, subjection to women.

    • -वासः an ant-hill.

    • -विधेय Adjective governed by a wife, uxorious; संनिवेश्य सचिवेष्वतःपरं स्त्रीविधेयनवयौवनोऽभवत् R.19.4.

    • -विवाहः contracting marriage with a woman; अष्टाविमान् समानेन स्त्रीविवाहान्निबोधत Ms.3.2.

    • -विषयः sexual connection.

    • -व्रणः the female organ.

    • -शौण्ड Adjective fond of women.

    • -संसर्गः female company.

    • -संस्थान Adjective having a female shape; स्त्रीसंस्थानं चाप्यरस्तीर्थमारादुत्क्षिप्यैनां ज्योतिरेकं तिरोऽभूत् Ś.5.3.

    • -संगः attachment to women, or intercourse with women.

    • -संग्रहणम्

      1. the act of embracing a woman (improperly).
      2. adultery, seduction.
    • -सभम् an assembly of women.

    • -संबन्धः

      1. matrimonial alliance with a woman.
      2. connection by marriage.
      3. relation to women.
    • -सेवा Devotion or addiction to women.

    • -स्वभावः

      1. the nature of women.
      2. a eunuch.
    • -हत्या the murder of a woman.

    • -हन्तृ the murderer of a woman; स्त्रीहन्तॄंश्च न संवसेत् Ms.11.19.

    • -हरणम्

      1. the forcible abduction of women.
      2. rape.
    • -हारिन् Masculine a ravisher or seducer (of women).

    In the Gita1·409·32

    स्त्रीषु दुष्टासु वार्ष्णेय जायते वर्णसंकरः ॥

    strīṣu duṣṭāsu vārṣṇeya jāyate varṇasaṅkaraḥ. — Owing to predominance of lawlessness, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupt; women corrupted, O Varshneya, the confusion of the varnas… 1·40
    • स्त्रीषुstrīṣulocative plural of the feminine noun strī (a woman, wife).
    • स्त्रियःstriyaḥnominative plural of the feminine noun strī (a woman, wife).
  2. अशास्त्रीयaśāstrīyaa.Unscriptural, heterodox; illegal, immoral.

    Unscriptural, heterodox; illegal, immoral.

  3. अस्त्रीastrī1 Not a woman.
    1. 1 Not a woman.
    2. (In Grammar) The masculine and neuter genders; वल्कं वल्कलमस्त्रियाम् Ak. अस्त्री पङ्कम् Nm.

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. स्त्रीstrī[str-î́] f. [perh.=starî; nm. without s, ac., V., C. striyam, C. also strîm] woman, female, wife; feminine…

    [str-î́] feminine; also equal for [perhapsEquivalent tostarî; nominative without s, accusative, Veda, Vedic, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit striyam, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit also strîm] woman, female, wife; feminine form or gender (grammatical term): -ka, --˚ adjectiveEquivalent tostrî; -katĭ̂, feminine; also equal for female hip; (strî́) kâma, adjective lusting after women (Veda, Vedic, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit); de siring female offspring; -kârya, neuter attend ance on women; -kumâra, masculine plural women and children; (strî́)-krita, perfect passive participle done by women; neuter copulation (Sûtra); -kshîra, neuter milk of women; -gamana, neuter consorting or sexual intercourse with women; -ghâtaka, adjective mur dering a woman or one's wife; -ghna, adjective the same; -gana, masculine women-kind; feminine (grammatical term); -gan anî, adjective feminine; also equal for bringing forth daughters; -gita, perfect passive participle ruled by women, henpecked; -tva, neuter womanhood; feminine gender (grammatical term); -dhana, neuter woman's private property; wife and pro perty; -dharma, masculine laws concerning women; copulation; -dharminî, adjective menstruating; -pumsa, masculine dual husband and wife; mascu line and feminine (grammatical term); -pumdharma, masculine laws concerning men and women; -praty aya, masculine feminine suffix; -prasû, adjective feminine; also equal for bring ing forth daughters; -bhava, masculine womanhood; -mantra, masculine woman's counsel or stratagem; -maya, adjective (î) feminine; effeminate.

  2. अस्त्रीastrī[a-strî] f. no woman; no feminine=m. and n. (gr.); -sambhogin, a. lying with no woman.

    [a-strî] feminine; also equal for no woman; no feminine=masculine and neuter (grammatical term); -sambhogin, adjective lying with no woman.

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. स्त्रीstrīf. (perhaps for सूत्री, or सोत्री, "bearer of children", fr. √2. सू; accord. to some connected with Lat.…
    1. feminine (perhaps for सूत्री, or सोत्री, "bearer of children", from √2. सू; according to to some connected with Latin sator; nominative case स्त्र्/ई; accusative in later language also स्त्रीम् and स्त्रीस् plural) a woman, female, wife fg-veda etc.
    2. feminine the female of any animal (exempli gratia, 'for example' शाखा-मृग-स्त्री, "a female monkey") S3Br. MBh.
    3. feminine a white ant Lexicographers
    4. feminine the Priyan3gu प्रियङ्गु plant Lexicographers
    5. feminine (in gram.) the feminine gender Nir. S3Br. etc.
    6. feminine a kind of metre Col.
  2. अधिस्त्रीadhistrīf. a superior woman Hariv.

    feminine a superior woman Hariv.

  3. अन्यस्त्रीगanyastrīgam. going to another's wife, an adulterer Mn.

    masculine gender going to another's wife, an adulterer Mn.

  4. अमरस्त्रीamarastrīf. "wife of the gods", an Apsaras अप्सरस् or nymph of heaven L.

    feminine "wife of the gods", an Apsaras अप्सरस् or nymph of heaven Lexicographers

  5. अशास्त्रीयaśāstrīyamfn. = अ-शास्त्र q.v.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective Equivalent to अ-शास्त्र quod vide