As a Hindi name
चुल्ली · noun · feminine
अग्न्याधान । चूल्हा · चिता । ३ . तीन विभागोंवाला विशाल कक्ष जिसका एक विभाग उत्तरमुख, दूसरा पूर्वमुख और तीसरा पश्विममुखी हो (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
चुल्ली · adj
चिलबिला । नटखट — Śabdasāgara
चुल्ली · ćullī · adj.
Lewd, &c. ( = ćulhārā) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 440
चुल्ली · ćullī · s.f.
A fire-place; a chimney ( = ćūlhī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 440
Cited formation "चुल्ली" is चुल्ल + -ई: चुल्ल means "carefree, without worry", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चुल्ली" is चुल्ल + -ई: चुल्ल means "carefree, without worry", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चुल्ली" is चुल्ल + -ई: चुल्ल means "carefree, without worry", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a large hall composed of 3 divisions (one looking north, another east, the third west)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "cullī" is the nominative dual of "culli" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
cullī f. a fireplace, chimney, Mn. iii, 68; Lalit. xviii, 99; Pañcat.; Suśr.; Hcat.
(cūlhī), Śīl.
a funeral pile, L.
a large hall composed of 3 divisions (one looking north, another east, the third west), VarBṛS. liii, 38
= gṛha-cullī, 42.
culli f. = ˚llī, a fireplace, L.
culli f. (-lliḥ) A fire place, a chimney. E. culla to manifest meaning, and i aff.
Alternative readings
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