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Telugu
Etymology
Compare with Hindi चीनी (cīnī) and Urdu چینی (cīnī).
Adjective
చీనీ • (cīnī)
- (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)
- (colloquial, regional) sugar
- Synonyms: పంచదార (pañcadāra), శర్కర (śarkara), చక్కెర (cakkera)
- 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)
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, editor (1962/1974-2008), “చీనీ”, in మాండలిక వృత్తిపదకోశం [A Telugu Dialectal Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi