to reduce to powder or fine particles by crushing and friction; to grind; to powder; to pulverise.

to crush or squeeze (as a sugar cane, leaves, to get juice out); to work up (flour, clay etc.) into a plastic mass (dough) by pressing and folding it with the hands; to knead.

to be reduced to powder.

to be distorted; to lose one's original form or shape.

to cause to study laboriously; to teach thoroughly.

ಅರೆದುಕುಡಿ aredukuḍi to learn or study thoroughly; ಅರೆದುಕುಡಿಸು aredukuḍisu to teach thoroughly; ಅರೆದುಹೊಯ(ಯ್ಯಿ) areduhoy(yyi) to teach thoroughly; ಅರೆದವ ಕುಡಿದಾನು aredava kuḍidānu (prov.) as you brew, so you must drink.

somewhere; at some place.

sometime; at some unspecified time.

a few; not many; in small, limited or restricted number.

ಅರೆಬರ್ arebar (pl.) a few people.

a recess or hollow in a wall, as for a statue, bust or vase; a niche.

a space within a building enclosed by walls or separated from other similar spaces by walls or partitions; a room.

a sliding box in a table, bureau, chest, etc., that can be drawn out and then pushed back into place; a drawer.

a kind of percussion instrument, used in folk-dance.

half - a) being either of the two equal parts; b) being about a half of the amount, length, etc.

incomplete; fragmentary; partial.

either of two equal parts into which a thing or quantity is or may be divided; a half.

that which is not a whole (not necessarily being half).

a few things (uncertain ones).

a falling short; deficit, insufficiency; deficiency.

to be missed; to be lost.

a large mass of stone.

an open excavation for building stone, slate etc.; any source of building stone; a quarry;

ಅರೆ ಆಳು are āḷu half the turnover or quantum of work a normal person can do in a day; ಅರೆ ಉಣಿಸು are uṇisu insufficient food; ಅರೆಮಾಡು aremāḍu to make incomplete; to stop a job without completing; ಅರೆಯಾಗು areyāgu to become deficient; to be incomplete.

an interjection expressing wonder or objection.

want of digestive power; inability to digest food.

a sand bank.

the plant Grislea tomentosa.

any one of the rods connecting the hub with the rim of a wheel; a spoke.

a bushy plant Woodfordia fruticosa ( = W. floribunda, = Lythrum fructicosum of Lythraceae family; fire flame bush.

one of the radiating bars of a wheel of a cart; a spoke.

(arith.) a straight line joining the centre and any point on the circumference of a circle; a radius.

a line joining the origin (i.e. observer's point) and the object moving on a curved line; a line from a fixed point to a point on a curve; a radius.

a small hoof attached behind the hoofs of cattle, horse etc.; a mini-hoof.

a leather cutting tool; an awl.

a small knife.

a sharp-pointed stick used in driving and controlling elephants; a goad.

a person of noble family or noble conduct.

name of a sect or a sub-caste.

a member of Marāṭha military caste, settled in Karnāṭaka.

a long metal bar with wedge-shaped end on one side, used to dig the earth; a crow-bar.

either of the two equal (or approx. equal) parts of something; a half.

a part of a whole; a portion.

(in compound words) a king.