As a Hindi name
तूलिनी · noun · feminine
लक्ष्मणकंद · सेमर का पेड़ — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "तूलिनी" is तूलि + -नी: तूलि means "तूलिका", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the cotton tree (also tul˚, )
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tūlinī" is the vocative dual of "tūli" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
tūlinī f. the cotton tree (also tul˚, L.), Bhpr.
a kind of bulb, L.
tūlinī = tūliphalā above.
tūlinī f. (-nī) The silk cotton tree. E. tūla cotton, ini and ṅīṣ aff.
tūli f. a painter's brush (cf. turī), Uṇ., Sch.
tūli f. (-liḥ) A painter's brush, or a fibrous stick used as one, and for other purposes. E. tūla to send forth or cut, affix in: see tūla and tūlī.
Alternative readings
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