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indigo meaning in Sanskrit

तूणी tūṇī

/ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/US/ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/

indigo in Sanskrit: तूणी (tūṇī). In English, indigo means a purplish-blue color.

Sanskrit words for indigo

indigo
तूणी tūṇī

English meaning of indigo

  1. noun A purplish-blue color.
  2. noun A greenish dark blue color; the color of indigo dye.
  3. noun A blue-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
  4. noun An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).

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Questions about indigo in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of indigo in Sanskrit?
Indigo in Sanskrit is तूणी (tūṇī).
indigo इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Indigo: तूणी (tūṇī).
What does indigo mean in English?
Indigo means a purplish-blue color.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “indigo”: तूणी. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: indigo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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