As a Hindi name
हालिनी · noun · feminine
एक प्रकार की बड़ी गृहगोधा या छिपकली — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "हालिनी" is हालि + -नी: हालि means "Rudder, helm", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of lizard
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Dictionary citations
hālinī f. a kind of lizard, L.
hālinī A kind of large houselizard.
hālinī f. (-nī) A sort of lizard.
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