As a Hindi name
कोला · noun · feminine
छोटी पीपल । पिप्पली · चव्य · बेर का पेड़ — Śabdasāgara
कोला · noun · masculine
गीदड़ — Śabdasāgara
कोला · kolā · s.m.
(f. -ī), A jackal, Canis aureus — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 864
कोला · masculine
jackal
कोला · masculine
a small field (esp. one beside a house or enclosed on two or three sides by water).
Cited formation "कोला" is कोल + -आ: कोल means "A hog", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit क्रोष्टुक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit क्रोष्टुक (kroṣṭuka)” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kroṣṭuka m. a jackal, MBh.
‘N. of a man’, see krauṣṭuki
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit क्रोड — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit क्रोड (kroḍa)” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kroḍa as, m. (n. in later language, L.) the breast, chest, bosom (of men and animals), AV.; VS.; KātyŚr. &c.
(of a bird), R. vii, 18, 32
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Piper longum
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M1 · same meaning "kolā" is the feminine form of "kola" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
kolā f. Piper longum, L.
Piper Chaba, L.
kolā, -liḥ, -lī f. See badarī.
kola m. (g. jvalādi), a hog (cf. kroḍa), Yājñ. iii, 273; Vop.
a raft, Divyāv. iii
Alternative readings
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