As a Hindi name
पूपाली · noun · feminine
पूप । मालपुआ — Śabdasāgara
पूपाली · pūpālī · s.f.
A sort of cake or biscuit made of meal or barley half baked or fried — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 276
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
pūpā˚likā and pūpā˚lī, id.
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Dictionary citations
pūpālika, m. (Suśr.), pūpā˚likā (ib.) and pūpā˚lī (L.), f. id.
pūpalā(lī), pūpālikā, pūpālī, pūlikā, pūpikā A sort of sweet cake.
pūpālī f. (-lī) A sort of cake or biscuit, made of meal or barley, half baked or fried. E. pūpa cake, āṅ before, lā to be or resemble, aff. ka, fem. aff. ṅīp; also with kan added pūpālikā.
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