As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘cotton-tube’, a cotton rock
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Dictionary citations
tūla—nā˚lī f. ‘cotton-tube’, a cotton rock, L.
tūlanālī f. (-lī) A thick roll of cotton, from which it is drawn out in spinning. E. tūla cotton, nāla a tube, affixes aṇ and ṅīp; also with kan added tūlanālikā, f. (-kā.)
Alternative readings
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