As a deity name
Name 258 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
As a Hindi name
चातुरी · ćāturī · s.f.
= S چاتريه चातुर्य ćāturya, s.m. Cleverness, ability, shrewdness, skilfulness, dexterity ( = ćaturāʼī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 416
चातुरी · noun · feminine
चतुरता । चतुराई । व्यवहारदक्षता · चालाकी । धूर्तता — Śabdasāgara
चाय · feminine
tea (plant, beverage); cup of tea
Cited formation "चातुरी" is चातुर + -ई: चातुर means "Relating to four", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "चातुरी" is चातुर + -ई: चातुर means "Relating to four", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "चातुरी" is चातुर + -ई: चातुर means "Relating to four", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian چَای (čāy), ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
dexterity, cleverness
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Dictionary citations
cāturī f. (= ˚rya, Siddh. napuṃs. 4; Vop. iv, 12) dexterity, cleverness, Prasannar. ii, 8/9; iii, 13/14; Vcar. vi, 12
amiableness, Sāh. x, 84.
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