1. ಉಪಾಕರ್ಮ

    ♪ upākarma
      noun
    1. a starting or commencing; a beginning; commencement.
    2. a ceremony performed before initiating to the study of the Vedas; now, chiefly, the ceremony of investing a boy with sacred thread.
    3. a festival of renewing the sacred thread, in Śrāvaṇa, the fifth month of Hindulunar calendar.
  2. ಉಪಕ್ರಮ

    ♪ upa krama
      noun
    1. the act or an instance of approaching; a going near.
    2. a starting or commencing; a beginning.
    3. a test of honesty; a trial of fidelity.
    4. a plan, contrivance, means; expedient, stratagem, etc.
    5. attendance on a patient, treatment, practice of medicine, etc.
  3. ಉಪಗ್ರಾಮ

    ♪ upa grāma
      noun
    1. a small town near a bigger town to check overgrowth; a satellite town.
  4. ಉಪಕ್ರಮಿ

    ♪ upa krami
      noun
    1. he who takes initiation; a person who begins anything; a beginner.
  5. ಉಪಕ್ರಮಿಸು

    ♪ upa kramisu
      verb
    1. to begin - a) to start doing, acting, going, etc.; to get under way; b) to come into being; to arise.
    2. to approach; to go near.