the act or process of learning.

acquaintance with facts; knowledge.

great ability or proficiency; expertness that comes from training, practice, etc.

the quality of mechanically repeating whatever is taught without understanding fully.

(dial.) the skill in deception; craftiness.

a small swelling or projection on a plant, from which a flower develops; a flower-bud.

small flame at the end of a burning wick of a lamp.

a fruit in its very early stage.

a young leave or bunch of young leaves.

a particular kind of prose.

the system of growing different crops every year, instead of the same in a field.

absolute darkness; complete absence of light; pitch-darkness.

any flaw, defect or shortcoming; a blemish.

a series of clouds.

a green or greenish-blue poisonous compound, a basic acetate of copper, formed while food is being cooked in copper vessels.

the most formidable, wrathful form of Mother-Goddess Pārvati, representing the destructive aspect of mother-nature.

the black collyrium.

the resultant thing of mixing; something mixed; a combination; a mixture of heterogenous things without any chemical reaction taking place between the components.

a small, congenital, dark spot, on the human skin; a mole.

a large, reddish brown, glandular organ in vertebrates, located in the upper abdominal cavity and functioning in the secretion of bile and in essential metabolic processes; the liver.

= ಘಲ್‍ಘಲ್.

a thick liquid in which relatively large number of small insoluble particles are in suspension and remain for long without getting settled to the bottom; gel; sol; emulsion.

the breaking of a divine or moral law, either by a conscious or unconscious act; a religious flaw; a sin.

dirt; filth; soil; defilement.

undisollved particles settled to the bottom of a liquid; dreg; lees.

a waxlike yellowish substance exuded by the ears; earwax; cerumen.

a false statement made deliberately; a lie.

a high opinion of oneself, often unduly exaggerated; pride; arrogance.

a beautiful woman.

= ಕಲ್ಗಿ.

a decorative thing fixed to a headgear or crown.

the act, fact or process of learning, gaining knowledge.

knowledge so got.

a kind of poetical conversation, in the form of a song, sung by a group of persons hailing the excellence of women over men (as a sport)[the counterpart of this hailing the excellence of men is turā].

one of the two groups of people who sing this.

the ornamental plant Celosia cristata of Amaranthaceae family, and red or yellow flower head somewhat like a roosteṛs crest; cockscomb.

the tenth incarnation of Viṣṇu, believed to happen for instituting a new age of purity and spiritual renewal, at the end of the current age i.e. Kaliyuga, the fourth of the four mythological ages.

to stir (a liquid or pasty item) as to make the sediments suspend throughout; to agitate slightly.

to beat, shake (milk or cream) in a churn.

to spoil the calmness, serenity; to rouse to violent action.

temporary loss of consciousness as from fatigue, mental shock, etc.

a particular manner of playing musical instruments.

a mixture, esp. adulterated one.

any of the small staffs or rods fixed on side beams on either sides of a bullock cart, to which a frame of bamboos is fixed.