As a Hindi name
चोटी · noun · feminine
सिर के मध्य में के थोडे़ से और कुछ बडे़ बाल जो प्रायः हिंदू नहीं मुड़ाने या काटते । शिखा । चुंदी · एक में गुँथे हुए स्त्रियों के सिर के बाल · सूत या ऊन आदि का वह डोरा जिसके व्यवहार स्त्रियों को चोटी गूँधने और अंत में बालों को बाँधने में होता है — Śabdasāgara
चोटी · noun · feminine
लहँगा । साया । पेटीकोट — Śabdasāgara
चोटी · ćoṭī · s.f.
A lock of hair left on the top of the head (the rest being shaven off); the hair braided or plaited and hung down behind, a cue; a coil (of hair), a top-knot; an ornament worn on the head (by women) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 449
चोटी · feminine
braid; lock of hair; summit, peak (of a mountain)
Cited formation "चोटी" is चोट + -ई: चोट means "injury, hurt, wound", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चोटी" is चोटना + -ई: चोटना means "स॰ [हिं॰ चोटना] दे॰ 'चकोटना'", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "चोटी" is चोट + -ई: चोट means "injury, hurt, wound", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, derived from the Sanskrit चूड — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Ultimately from Sanskrit चूड (cūḍa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
cūḍa mfn. stupid (?), Divyāv. xxxv, 99 f.
cūḍa m. (cf. kūṭa) a sort of protuberance on a sacrificial brick, ŚBr. viii and KātyŚr. (also ifc. f(ā). )
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a petticoat
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Dictionary citations
coṭikā, coṭī, f. a petticoat, L.
coṭī A petticoat.
coṭī f. (-ṭī) A petticoat. E. cuṭa to be small, affixes ac and ṅīṣ.
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