Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 A girl; saṃbaddhavaikhānasaka- nyakāni R. 14. 28; 11. 53.
2 An unmarried girl, virgin, maiden; gṛhe gṛhe puruṣāḥ kulakanyakāḥ samudvahaṃti Māl. 7; Y. 1. 105.
3 A technical name for a girl ten years old; (aṣṭava- rṣā bhavedgaurī navavarṣā ca rohiṇī. daśame ka- nyakā proktā ata urdhvaṃ rajasvalā Śabdak.)
4 (In Rhet.) One of the several kinds of heroines; an unmarried girl serving as a chief character in a...