As a Hindi name
देहली · dehalī · s.f.
Threshold of a door, the sill or lower part of the wooden frame of a door; a vestibule, a porch; a raised terrace in front of a door (see ḍeʼoṛhī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 561
देहली · noun · feminine
द्वार की चौखट की वह लकडी़ जो नीचे होती है और जिसे लाँघकर लोग भीतर घुसते हैं । दहलीज — Śabdasāgara
देहली · feminine
Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)
देहली · feminine
threshold, doorstep
Cited formation "देहली" is देहला + -ई: देहला means "(शरीर को पुष्टि देनेवाली) मदिरा । शऱाब", and the suffix -ई forms feminine of nouns/adjectives in inherent -अ or -आ (replaces the final vowel). CHD Basic Grammar App. II §2 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian دهلی (dihlī), of uncertain origin. See दिल्ली (dillī) for further details.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit देहली — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit देहली (dehalī, “threshold”)” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dehalī f. (rarely ˚li) the threshold of a door or a raised terrace in front of it, GṛS.; Kāv.; Pur.
dehaliḥ -lī f. The threshold of (pb) a door, the sill or lower part of the wooden frame of a door; vinyasyaṃtī bhuvi gaṇanayā dehalīdattapuppaiḥ Me. 87; Mk. 1. 9. Comp. — dīpaḥ a lamp suspended over the threshold; ˚nyāya see under nyāya.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the threshold of a door or a raised terrace in front of it
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dehalī f. (rarely ˚li) the threshold of a door or a raised terrace in front of it, GṛS.; Kāv.; Pur.
dehaliḥ -lī f. The threshold of (pb) a door, the sill or lower part of the wooden frame of a door; vinyasyaṃtī bhuvi gaṇanayā dehalīdattapuppaiḥ Me. 87; Mk. 1. 9. Comp. — dīpaḥ a lamp suspended over the threshold; ˚nyāya see under nyāya.
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