బోడి

Telugu

Etymology

Noun senses arising from customs of monks and widows shaving their heads.

Adjective

బోడి • (bōḍi)

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

Noun

బోడి • (bōḍi) ? (plural బోళ్ళు)

1. a monk

   Synonym: సన్యాసి (sanyāsi)

2. (South Africa) a widow

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