तीली

Hindi

Alternative forms

• तिली (tilī)

Etymology

Uncertain. Dasa suggests borrowed from Classical Persian تِیر (tīr, “arrow”), but this is semantically tenuous.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t̪iː.liː/

Noun

तीली • (tīlī) f (Urdu spelling تیلی)

1. spoke (of a wheel)
2. matchstick, match

   Synonym: माचिस (mācis)

Declension

Declension of तीली (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	तीली tīlī	तीलियाँ tīliyā̃
oblique	तीली tīlī	तीलियों tīliyõ
vocative	तीली tīlī	तीलियो tīliyo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तीली”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “तीली”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “तीली”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha