చీనీ

Telugu

Etymology

Compare with Hindi चीनी (cīnī) and Urdu چینی (cīnī).

Adjective

చీనీ • (cīnī)

1. (rare) Chinese
   • 1966, B. Radhakrishnamurthy, అగ్నిశిఖరం [Peak of the Volcano], page 112:

     "త్వరలోనే నీవు మన చీనీ భాష నేర్చుకోగలవు" "థ్యాంక్యూ సర్!"

     "tvaralōnē nīvu mana cīnī bhāṣa nērcukōgalavu" "thyāṅkyū sar!"

     "Soon you will even learn our Chinese language!" "Thank you sir!"

Noun

చీనీ • (cīnī) ? (plural చీనీలు)

1. (colloquial, regional) sugar

   Synonyms: పంచదార (pañcadāra), శర్కర (śarkara), చక్కెర (cakkera)

2. the names of various fruits

References

• చీనీ at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
  1. Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, editor (1962/1974-2008), “చీనీ”, in మాండలిక వృత్తిపదకోశం [A Telugu Dialectal Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi