As a Hindi name
तूली · noun · feminine
नील का वृक्ष या पौधा · रंग भरने की कूँची · लकडी़ का एक औजार जिसमें कूँची के रूप में खडे़ रेशे जमाए रहते हैं और जिससे जुलाहे फैलाया हुआ सूत बैठाते हैं । जुलाहों की कूँची — Śabdasāgara
तूली · tūlī · s.f.
= tulī; tulā, qq.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 344
तूली · tūlī · s.f.
Cotton; the wick of a lamp; a weaver's fibrous stick or brush; a painter's brush or pencil, or a stick with a fibrous extremity used as one — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 344
Cited formation "तूली" is तूल + -ई: तूल means "cotton, fluff, fiber", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "तूली" is तूलना + -ई: तूलना means "स॰", 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 "तूली" is तूल + -ई: तूल means "cotton, fluff, fiber", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
cotton
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tūlī" is the nominative dual of "tūli" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
tūlī f. id., L.
cotton, Sāṃkhyak. 17; Gauḍap.
= ˚li, Uṇ., Sch.
= -paṭī, Subh.; RāmatUp. i, 86, Sch.
the Indigo plant, L.
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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