As a Hindi name
मेखला · noun · feminine
वह वस्तु जो किसी दुसरी वस्तु के मध्य भाग में उसे चारो ओर से घेरे हुए पड़ी हो । २ सिकड़ी या माला के आकार का एक गहना जो कमर को घेरकर पहना जाता है । करघनी । तागड़ी । किंकिणी · कमर में लपेटकर पहनने का सुत या डोरी । करधनी । जैसे, मुंजमेखला · कोई मंडलाकार वस्तु । गील घेरा । मंडल । मँडरा — Śabdasāgara
मेखला · mekhalā · s.f.
(in one or two compounds, mekhala), A girdle, zone, belt, waist-belt; the zone of a woman — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1106
मेखला · feminine
belt, girdle; waistband, cummerband
Cited formation "मेखला" is मेखल + -आ: मेखल means "belt, girdle", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "मेखला" is मेखल + -आ: मेखल means "belt, girdle", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi मेखला — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मेखला (mekhalā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
mekhalā f. See below.
mekhalā f. a girdle, belt, zone (as worn by men or women, but esp. that worn by the men of the first three classes; accord. to Mn. ii, 42 that of a Brāhman ought to be of muñja [accord. to, ii, 169 = yajñopavīta, q.v.]; that of a Kṣatriya, of mūrvā; that of a Vaiśya, of śaṇa or hemp, IW. p. 240), AV. &c. &c.;
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a girdle, belt, zone (as worn by men or women, but esp. that worn by the men of the first three classes; accord. to that of a Brāhman ought to be of muñja [accord. to, = yajñopavīt…
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M1 · same meaning "mekhalā" is the feminine form of "mekhala" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
mekhalā f. See below.
mekhalā f. a girdle, belt, zone (as worn by men or women, but esp. that worn by the men of the first three classes; accord. to Mn. ii, 42 that of a Brāhman ought to be of muñja [accord. to, ii, 169 = yajñopavīta, q.v.]; that of a Kṣatriya, of mūrvā; that of a Vaiśya, of śaṇa or hemp, IW. p. 240), AV. &c. &c.;
the girth of a horse, Kathās.
a band or fillet, L.
(ifc. f(ā). ) anything girding or surrounding (cf. sāgara-m˚)
mekhala m. n. a girdle, belt, R.
mekhala m. pl. N. of a people, VarBṛS. (prob. w.r. for mekala)
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