As a Hindi name
सूची · noun · masculine
चर । भेदिया · पिशुन । चुगुल- खोर · खल । दुष्ट — Śabdasāgara
सूची · noun · feminine
कपड़ा सीने की सूई · दृष्टि । नजर · केतकी । केवड़ा — Śabdasāgara
सूची · sūćī · s.f.
Piercing, perforating; a needle ( = sūʼī); sharp point (of anything); vertex (of a triangle) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 695
सूची · feminine
list, catalogue; needle
Cited formation "सूची" is सूच + -ई: सूच means "A pointed shoot or blade of kuśa grass", 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 "सूची" is सूचना + -ई: सूचना means "information", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सूची — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit सूची (sūcī́). Doublet of सुई (suī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sūci or sūcī, f. (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in R. once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surgery’, ‘a magnet’ &c.), RV. &c. &c.; the sharp point or tip of anything or any pointed object, Kāv.; Car.; BhP.; a rail or balustrade, Divyāv.; a small door-bolt, L.; ‘sharp file or column’, a kind of military array (accord. to Kull. on Mn. vii, 187, ‘placing the sharpest and most active soldiers in front’), Mn.; MBh.; Kām.; an index, table of contents (in books printed in India; cf. -pattra below); a triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet, Col.; a cone, pyramid, ib.; (in astron.) the earth's disc in computing eclipses (or ‘the corrected diameter of the earth’), Sūryas.; gesticulation, dramatic action, L.; a kind of coitus, L.; sight, seeing (= dṛṣṭi), L.; m. (only sūci) the son of Niṣāda and a Vaiśyā, L. a maker of winnowing baskets &c. (cf. sūnā), L.
sūcī f. (= sūcī), in comp.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
or sūcī, (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surg…
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M1 · same meaning "sūcī" is the nominative of "sūcin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūcī" is the nominative dual of "sūci" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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sūci or sūcī, f. (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in R. once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surgery’, ‘a magnet’ &c.), RV. &c. &c.; the sharp point or tip of anything or any pointed object, Kāv.; Car.; BhP.; a rail or balustrade, Divyāv.; a small door-bolt, L.; ‘sharp file or column’, a kind of military array (accord. to Kull. on Mn. vii, 187, ‘placing the sharpest and most active soldiers in front’), Mn.; MBh.; Kām.; an index, table of contents (in books printed in India; cf. -pattra below); a triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet, Col.; a cone, pyramid, ib.; (in astron.) the earth's disc in computing eclipses (or ‘the corrected diameter of the earth’), Sūryas.; gesticulation, dramatic action, L.; a kind of coitus, L.; sight, seeing (= dṛṣṭi), L.; m. (only sūci) the son of Niṣāda and a Vaiśyā, L. a maker of winnowing baskets &c. (cf. sūnā), L.
sūcī f. (= sūcī), in comp.
sūciḥ -cī f. [sūc-in vā ṅīp] 1 Piercing, perforating. 2 A needle (pb) 3 Sharp point or pointed blade (as of Kuśa grass); abhinavakuśasūcyā parikṣataṃ me caraṇaṃ Ś. 1; so mukhe kuśasūcividdhe Ś. 4. 13. 4 The sharp point or tip of anything; kaḥ karaṃ prasārayet pannagaratnasūcaye Ku. 5. 43. 5 The point of a bud. 6 A kind of military array, a sharp column or file; daṃḍavyūhena tanmārgaṃ yāyāttu śakaṭena vā . varāhamakarābhyāṃ vā sūcyā vā garuḍena vā Ms. 7. 187. 7 A triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet. 8 A cone, pyramid. 9 Indication by gesture, communicating by sings, gesticulation. 10 A particular mode of dancing. 11 Dramatic action. 12 An index, a table of contents. 13 A list, catalogue. 14 The earth's disc in computing eclipses (in astr.). Comp. — agra a. needle-pointed, having a sharp needle-like point, acuminated. — (graṃ) the point of a needle. — āsyaḥ a rat. — kaṭāhanyāyaḥ see under nyāya. — khātaḥ a sharp pyramid or pyramidal excavation, a cone. — patrakaṃ an index, a table of contents. — (kaḥ) a kind of potherb. — puṣpaḥ the Ketaka tree. — bhinna a. bursting open at the points of the buds; pāṃḍucchāyopavanavṛtayaḥ ketakaiḥ sūcibhinnaiḥ Me. 23. — bhedya a. 1 to be pierced or penetrated by a needle. 2 thick, dense, pitchy, gross, utter; ruddhāloke narapatipathe sūcibhedyaistamobhiḥ Me. 37. 3 palpable, tangible. — mukha a. 1 needle-mouthed, having a pointed beak. 2 pointed. — (khaḥ) 1 a bird. 2 white Kuśa grass. 3 a particular position of the hands. — (khaṃ) a diamond. — roman m. a hog. — vadana a. needle-faced, having a pointed beak. — (naḥ) 1 a gnat, mosquito. 2 a mungoose. — śāliḥ a kind of fine rice.
sūcī See sūci.
sūcin mfn. spying, informing, W.
piercing perforating, ib.
sūci or sūcī, f. (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in R. once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surgery’, ‘a magnet’ &c.), RV. &c. &c.; the sharp point or tip of anything or any pointed object, Kāv.; Car.; BhP.; a rail or balustrade, Divyāv.; a small door-bolt, L.; ‘sharp file or column’, a kind of military array (accord. to Kull. on Mn. vii, 187, ‘placing the sharpest and most active soldiers in front’), Mn.; MBh.; Kām.; an index, table of contents (in books printed in India; cf. -pattra below); a triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet, Col.; a cone, pyramid, ib.; (in astron.) the earth's disc in computing eclipses (or ‘the corrected diameter of the earth’), Sūryas.; gesticulation, dramatic action, L.; a kind of coitus, L.; sight, seeing (= dṛṣṭi), L.; m. (only sūci) the son of Niṣāda and a Vaiśyā, L. a maker of winnowing baskets &c. (cf. sūnā), L.
sūci f. (-ciḥ-cī) 1 A needle. 2 Piercing, perforating. 3 Indication of a passion or feeling by signs, gesture, gesticulation. 4 A mode of dancing. 5 A mode of array, a sharp file or column. 6 A triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced to the point of meeting. 7 A cone, a pyramid. 8 (In astronomy,) The earth's disc in computing eclipses. 9 An index, a catalogue. E. sūca to make known, aff. in, and ṅīṣ optionally added; or siva to sew, &c., Uṇādi aff. caṭa; see sūca.
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