Alternative spellings of this word include Tulapichu.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

tūlapicu : (m.) cotton-wool.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Tūlapicu refers to: cotton-wool Vism. 282, 285, 404; DhA. III, 202; KhA 173.

Note: tūlapicu is a Pali compound consisting of the words tūla and picu.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tūlapicu (तूलपिचु).—cotton.

Derivable forms: tūlapicuḥ (तूलपिचुः).

Tūlapicu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tūla and picu (पिचु).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Tūlapicu (तूलपिचु).—(m.; same [compound] Pali and Sanskrit Lex.), cotton (in some form; symbol of lightness): Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 286.5 (sa punar evotkṣipyate 'vasīdati tasya) calācalā buddhir bhavati, tūlapicūpamaś ca sa bhavati; Divyāvadāna 210.14 and 388.14 mṛduḥ sumṛdus tad yathā tūlapicur vā karpāsapicur (q.v.) vā.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Tūlapicu (तूलपिचु).—m.

(-cuḥ) Cotton. E. tūla cotton, and picu the same.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Tūlapicu (तूलपिचु):—[=tūla-picu] [from tūla] m. cotton, [Divyāvadāna xvii, xxvii.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Tūlapicu (तूलपिचु):—[tūla-picu] (cuḥ) 2. m. Cotton.

[Sanskrit to German]

Tulapicu in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Tūlapicu (தூலபிசு) [tūla-picu] noun < tūla-picu. Cotton; பஞ்சதந்திரப் பாடற்ு. (வைத்திய மூலிகை) [panchu. (vaithiya muligai)]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Picu, Tula.

Full-text: Picutula, Pothita, Karpasapicu, Picu.

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