బోడి

Telugu

Etymology 1

Noun senses arising from customs of monks and widows shaving their heads. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

బోడి • (bōḍi)

  1. alternative form of బోడ (bōḍa, “bald, bare”)

Noun

బోడి • (bōḍi) n (plural బోళ్ళు)

  1. a monk
    Synonym: సన్యాసి (sanyāsi)
  2. (South Africa) a widow

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

బోడి • (bōḍi) f (plural బోళ్ళు)

  1. alternative form of బోటి (bōṭi)

References

  • "బోడి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 915
  • బోడి at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
  • Prabhakaran, Varijakshi (1 January 1997) “Social stratification in South African Telugu (Ste) - a sociolinguistic case study”, in Alternation‎[1], volume 4, number 2, page 180
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