पिपीलक

See also: पिपीलिका

Sanskrit

Etymology

From a compound of पिपील (pipīla, "ant") +‎ -क (-ka, diminutive suffix), with the first element possibly from a reduplicated form of पीड् (pīḍ, “to press, squeeze”).

Noun

पिपीलक • (pipīlaka) m

a large black ant

References

Monier Williams (1899), “पिपीलक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 575.

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