As a Hindi name
डोला · noun · masculine
[स्त्री॰ अल्पा॰ डोली] · स्त्रियों के बैठने की वह बंद सवारी जिसे कहार कंधों पर लेकर चलते हैं । पालकी । मियाना । शिविका · वह झोंका जो झूले में दिया लाता है । पेंग — Śabdasāgara
डोला · ḍolā · s.m.
A swing; a cradle; a litter; a kind of sedan (in which women of rank are carried) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 568
डोला · masculine
palanquin, litter (especially one used to carry a bride to her groom's home)
Cited formation "डोला" is डोल + -आ: डोल means "Moving, swinging, rocking, &c. (see ḍolnā)", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "डोला" is डोलना + -आ: डोलना means "to shake, sway, swing, move about, roam", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit दोल — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀟𑁄𑀮 (ḍola), from Sanskrit दोल (dola, “swinging, dangling cradle, litter”), from दुल् (dul, “to swing”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dola m. (√ dul) swinging, oscillating, MBh. i, 1214
a festival (on the 14th of Phālguna) when images of the boy Kṛṣṇa are swung, W.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
A swing — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
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Dictionary citations
ḍolā f. = ḍolā, a swing, Bālar. vii.
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