As a Hindi name
गालिनी · noun · feminine
तंत्र की एक मुद्रा — Śabdasāgara
गाना · masculine
song
गाना
to sing
Cited formation "गालिनी" is गालि + -नी: गालि means "Curse, imprecation, execration (cf. next)", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — 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 गान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गान (gāna). Cognate with Assamese গান (gan), Bengali গান (gan), Gujarati ગાણું (gāṇũ), Marathi गाणे (gāṇe), Punjabi ਗਾਣਾ (gāṇā). Doublet of गान (gān), a tatsama.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gāna n. singing, song, KātyŚr.; Lāṭy. i, vii; Hariv. 11793; Śiś. ix, 54
a sound, L. (cf. araṇya-, ūha-, ūhya-.)
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गायति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गायति (gāyati), from the root गै (gai, “to sing”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a particular position of the fingers
Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gālinī" is the vocative dual of "gāli" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "gālinī" is the feminine form of "gālin" — the same word with the feminine ending, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
gālinī f. a particular position of the fingers, Tantras.
gālinī A particular position of the fingers.
gāli f. pl. reviling speech, invectives, execrations, Bhartṛ.; Rājat. vi, 157.
gāli &c. See 2. gālana.
1. gālin mfn. distilling, fusing, W.
2. gālin mfn. reviling, abusive, W.
Alternative readings
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