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)

Alternative form of బోడ (bōḍa, “bald, bare”)

Noun

బోడి • (bōḍi) n (plural బోళ్ళు)

A monk.
Synonym: సన్యాసి (sanyāsi)
(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)

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 (1997 January 1) “Social stratification in South African Telugu (Ste) - a sociolinguistic case study”, in Alternation‎^[1], volume 4, number 2, page 180