bhikkhā : [f.] alms; food.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

Bhikkhā (f.) [cp. Epic & Class. Sk. bhaikṣa of bhikṣ, adj. & nt.] begged food, alms, alms -- begging; food Vin iv.94; Cp i.14; Vv 704 (ekāhā bh. food for one day); Miln 16; PvA 3, 75, 131 (kaṭacchu˚); bhikkhāya carati to go out begging food [cp. Sk. bhaikṣaŋ carati] J iii.82; v.75; PvA 51 & passim. --subhikkha (nt.) abundance of food D i.11. dubbhikkha (nt.) (& ˚ā f.) scantiness of alms, famine, scarcity of food, adj. famine -- stricken (cp. Sk. durbhikṣaŋ) Vin ii.175; iii.87 (adj.); iv.23 (adj.); S iv.323, 324 (dvīhitikaŋ); A i.160; iii.41; J ii.149, 367; v.193; vi.487; Cp i.33 (adj.); Vism 415 (˚pīḷita), 512 (f. in simile); KhA 218; DhA i.169; ii.153 (f.); iii.437 (˚bhaya).
   -- āhāra food received by a mendicant J i.237 (=bhikkhu -- āhāra?). -- cariyā going about for alms, begging round Sn 700; PvA 146. -- cāra=˚cariyā Mhbv 28. -- paññatti declaration of alms, announcement that food is to be given to the Sangha, a dedication of food Vin i.309.

Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,

bhikkhā: f. 乞求
 

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