కూలీ
Telugu
Etymology
From Hindustani क़ुली (qulī) / قلی (qulī, “hired laborer, slave”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish köle. Other forms occur in Bengali kuli and Tamil kuli, "daily hire." The (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin word 苦力 (kǔlì), was originally a transcription of the Hindi, and literally means "bitterly hard (use of) strength".
Noun
కూలీ • (kūlī) ? (plural కూలీలు)
- a hired laborer or workman, one who works for wages, a coolie.