अनुकूल anukūla
girl / boy / neuter 4 syllables SLP1 anukUla

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

The Sanskrit parent — अनुकूल (tatsama)

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

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूल

anu-kūla mf(ā)n. following the bank (kūla) or slope or declivity

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूल

according to the current, AV.

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूल

favourable, agreeable

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूल

conformable to

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूल

friendly, kind, well-disposed

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूला (linked stem)

anu-kūlā f. Croton Polyandrum

Monier-Williams (1899) · अनुकूला (linked stem)

N. of a metre

Alternative readings

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Caveats

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