As a Hindi name
पेषणी · peshaṇī · s.f.
A stone slab on which condiments, &c. are ground with a muller; mill, handmill; grindstone; millstone — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 300
Cited formation "पेषणी" is पेषण + -ई: पेषण means "Grinding, crushing, pulverizing", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "पेषणी" is पेषण + -ई: पेषण means "Grinding, crushing, pulverizing", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "पेषणी" is पेषण + -ई: पेषण means "Grinding, crushing, pulverizing", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a grindstone
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "peṣaṇī" is the nominative dual of "peṣaṇi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
peṣaṇī f. See below.
peṣaṇī f. a grindstone, Mn. iii, 68.
peṣaṇi f. = next, L.
peṣaṇi f. (-ṇiḥ or ṇī) A stone slab on which condiments, &c. are ground, with a muller. E. piśa to grind, aff. ani and ṅīp optionally added.
Alternative readings
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