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जखीण

   
Script: Devanagari
See also:  जंखीण , जंखीन , जखीन

जखीण     

A dictionary, Marathi and English | Marathi  English
jakhīṇa or jaṅkhīṇa f जखीन f An individual of an order of female goblins. They are ghosts of women who died in child-birth, or who drowned themselves. Hence the word is used as our words Fury, fright, hag, witch, beldam, malkin; and applied to an old and ugly woman gen. See डंखीण.

जखीण     

Aryabhushan School Dictionary | Marathi  English
 f  A female goblin, fury. An old and ugly woman.

जखीण     

 स्त्री. 
  1. जखाई जुखाई पहा .
  2. एखादी बाळंतीण मेली असतां किंवा एखाद्या स्त्रीनें पाण्यांत जीव दिला असतां तिचें जें पिशाच्च होतें तें ; हडळ .
  3. एक क्षुद्र देवता . जखिणी देवी म्हणे जी सर्वकर्तारा । - सप्र . ५ . १० . डंखीण पहा . [ सं . यक्षिणी ]

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