రతి
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Telugu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Sanskrit रति (rati, “rest, repose; pleasure, enjoyment, delight in, fondness for; the pleasure of love, sexual passion or union, amorous enjoyment”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -తి
Noun[edit]
- desire, passion, inclination, attachment.
- coition, copulation.
- A weight used in weighing diamonds. One twenty-fifth part of a Maund.
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Proper noun[edit]
రతి • (rati) f
- Rati : The wife of Manmatha.
- a female given name from Sanskrit
Synonyms[edit]
- రతీదేవి (ratīdēvi)
References[edit]
- "రతి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1064