As a Hindi name
चोल · noun · masculine
एक प्राचीन देश का नाम · उक्त देश का निवासी · स्त्रियों के पहनने की एक प्रकार की अँगिया । चोली — Śabdasāgara
चोल · adj
मजीठ का रंग । लाल (रंग) — Śabdasāgara
चोल · masculine
the Chola dynasty (extant in southern India from c. 300 BCE to 1279 CE)
a Hindi word, derived from the Sanskrit चोल — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“From Sanskrit चोल (cola).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
cola m. (= coda) a jacket, bodice, Naiṣ. xxii, 42 (ifc. f(ā). ; v.l.)
pl. N. of a people in southern India on the Coromandel (= cola-maṇḍala) coast, MBh. ii, vi ff.; Hariv. 782 and 9600; R. iv, 41, 18; VarBṛS. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a jacket, bodice, (ifc. ā; v.l.)
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cola m. (= coda) a jacket, bodice, Naiṣ. xxii, 42 (ifc. f(ā). ; v.l.)
pl. N. of a people in southern India on the Coromandel (= cola-maṇḍala) coast, MBh. ii, vi ff.; Hariv. 782 and 9600; R. iv, 41, 18; VarBṛS. &c.
sg. the ancestor of the Colas, Hariv. 1836
a prince of the Colas, MBh. ii, 1893; PadmaP. v, 153 f.; Rājat. i, 300
cola n. (= cela) garment, L.
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