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kulfi

kulfi noun: a flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.

kulfi: a flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream
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Noun

kulfi (countable and uncountable, plural kulfis)

  1. A flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.
    • Vada pav sandwiches and mango kulfi were sold at the concession stand.2007 January 3, Kareem Fahim, “For Some Moviegoers, It’s ‘Hooray for Bollywood’”, in New York Times

kulfi meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi

kulfi in Hindi

dessert
क़ुल्फ़ी qulfī

kulfi in Tamil

dessert
குல்ஃபி kulfi

kulfi in Urdu

kulfi
قلفی qulfī

kulfi in Punjabi

dessert
ਕੁਲਫ਼ੀ kulfī
More languagesFewer languages
kulfi in Gujarati
કુલ્ફી kulphī
kulfi in Myanmar
ကူဖီ kuhpi

Forms of kulfi

pluralkulfis

Origin of kulfi

From Hindi क़ुल्फ़ी (qulfī)/Urdu قلفی (qulfī), from Classical Persian قفلی (quflī) from قفل (qufl), from Arabic قُفْل (qufl, “lock, bolt”).

Questions about kulfi

What does kulfi mean?
Kulfi means a flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.
What is kulfi in Hindi?
Kulfi in Hindi is क़ुल्फ़ी (qulfī). See Kulfi meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is kulfi?
Kulfi is a noun.
What is the plural of kulfi?
The plural of kulfi is kulfis.

Words near kulfi in the dictionary

  1. Kuleshov effects
  2. Kulesza
  3. Kuleszas
  4. Kulewicz
  5. Kulfan
  6. kulfi
  7. kulfis
  8. kulfiwala
  9. kulfiwalas
  10. kulhad
  11. kulhads

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kulfi (page history and authors); قلفی (Urdu) (page history and authors); કુલ્ફી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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