夜叉

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  yaksha (a malevolent spirit)
 * 2)  a ferocious and hideous looking person
 * 3)  wife

Etymology
From, itself a transliteration of.

Noun

 * 1) yaksha, a broad class of nature spirits or minor deities who appear in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology. May be male or female, benevolent or malevolent.
 * 2)  in Buddhism, yakshas are held to be followers of, and guardians of the north
 * 3)  a demon

Idioms

 * : "like when the yaksha saw the horse" → an expression of extreme happiness, from a story of a yaksha who lost his horse

Derived terms

 * :, a type of alder tree
 * :, a type of bamboo
 * :, a type of flowering plant related to currants and gooseberry
 * :, the flowering fern