As a Hindi name
दोहनी · noun · feminine
दूध दुहंने की हाँड़ी । मिट्टी का वह बरतन जिसमें दूध दुहते हैं · दूध दुहने का काम — Śabdasāgara
दोहनी · dohanī · s.f.
A milk-vessel, milk-pail — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 536
दोहनी · feminine
milkpail
Cited formation "दोहनी" is दोह + -नी: दोह means "दोहन । दूहना", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "दोहनी" is दोहा + -नी: दोहा means "doha; kind of Indian couplet", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit दोहनी — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑁄𑀳𑀡 (dohaṇa) from Sanskrit दोहनी (dohanī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dohanī f. milk-pail, Kauś. (also ˚nikā, Hcat.)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
milk-pail, (also ˚nikā, )
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Dictionary citations
dohanī f. milk-pail, Kauś. (also ˚nikā, Hcat.)
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