As a deity name
Name 313 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 342 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
अनुकूल · adj
जो अनुकूल न हो · प्रतिकूल । विप- रीत । उलटा — Śabdasāgara
अनुकूल · adj
[स्त्री॰ अनुकूला] · मुआफिक · पक्ष में रहनेवाला । सहायक । हितकर — Śabdasāgara
अनुकूल · anu-kūl · adj.
Conformable to; acting in concert with; favourable, agreeable, well-disposed, friendly, kind, propitious, gracious — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 95
अनुकूल
favourable, conducive, beneficial; in accord, conforming
Cited formation "अनुकूल" is अनु- + कूल: कूल means "Declivity, slope", and the prefix अनु- forms following, after, according to, similar to. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(4) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अनुकूल — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अनुकूल (anukūla).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
anu-kūla mf(ā)n. following the bank (kūla) or slope or declivity
according to the current, AV.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
following the bank (kūla) or slope or declivity
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "anukūla" is the vocative of "anukūlā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
anu-kūla mf(ā)n. following the bank (kūla) or slope or declivity
according to the current, AV.
favourable, agreeable
conformable to
friendly, kind, well-disposed
anu-kūlā f. Croton Polyandrum
N. of a metre
Alternative readings
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