heroine
‘a female warrior’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. heroine, heroin, heroina < Lat. heroine, heroina (plural heroinae) ‘a female hero, a demigoddess’ < Gk. hērōine < Gk. hērōs, hērōes ‘demi-god’ < hehr < ser- < Tamil iṟai
heroine
English words derived from Tamil iṟai connoting ‘staying place’