As a Hindi name
मेथि · noun · masculine
हल में लगनेवाला वह लकड़ी का ढाँचा जो बौलों के कंधों पर रहता है — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ जुआठा
मेथि · noun · feminine
मसाले और ओषध में काम आनेवाला । एक बहुप्रसिद्ध छोटा पौधा और उसका फल — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ मेथी
में · feminine
bleat, baa, bleating (cry of a sheep)
मई · feminine
May
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Onomatopoeic.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a pillar, post (esp. a pillar in the middle of a threshing-floor to which oxen are bound, but also any central point or centre), &c. &c. (also methī, v.l. medhi medhī meḍhī, meṭhi…
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M1 · same meaning "methi" is the vocative of "methī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
methi m. (perhaps fr. √ 1. mi) a pillar, post (esp. a pillar in the middle of a threshing-floor to which oxen are bound, but also any central point or centre), AV. &c. &c. (also methī, f.; v.l. medhi f. medhī f. meḍhī f., meṭhi f., meṭhī f.; medhī-bhūta mfn. forming a solid pillar or centre, MBh.)
cattle-shed, AV. (f(methī). , TāṇḍBr.)
a prop for supporting carriage-shafts, AV.; &c. (also ˚methī, f.)
methi m. (-thiḥ) The part of a threshing floor, round which the cattle turn to tread out the corn. f. (-thī) A sort of grass, (Trigonella foenugræcum.) E. matha to understand, &c. in aff., fem. aff. ṅīṣ; also with kan added in the fem. form methikā.
methī See methi
See methi
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