Definitions for dhoti

dhoti dho·ti

Spelling: [doh-tee]
IPA: /ˈdoʊ ti/

Dhoti is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in dhoti (dhiot).

Definitions for dhoti

noun

  1. a long loincloth worn by many Hindu men in India.
  2. the cotton fabric, sometimes patterned, of which the loincloth is made.

Origin of dhoti

Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1615-25

Examples for dhoti

The garment distinctive of the Hindus of all castes, men and women, all over India, is the dhoti or loin cloth.

In some parts of India half the dhoti only is wound round the loins, the other half being thrown over the left shoulder.

Then he tore the strong border off his dhoti (loin cloth) and commenced to bind the handles of the doors together.

The priest arose, bathed, opened the shrine, and found the kshir under the lappet of the god's dhoti.

I have been trying to buy a few things—a sarong, which is a putso which is a dhoti; a pipe; and a "damned Malayan kris."

If you use Charkha only for limited hours daily you will get sufficient cloth for a dhoti.

dhoti—a sheet of cloth worn round the lower limbs by Hindu males.

The small form of dhoti worn by men of the lower class is called langoti.

He was not one of our men, but a common ryot, clad simply in a dhoti or waist-cloth, and a rather dirty turban.

Dermot saw that the corpse was that of a low-caste Hindu, clad only in a dirty cotton koorta and dhoti.

Word Value for dhoti
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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