a thin food made by cooking the flour of jowar, rāgi, etc.in water; gruel.

an old coin of small denomination.

name of a minor deity.

a wild buffalo, Bos gaurus; a bison.

the decorative line running parallel to the hem of a cloth (as of a sārī, dhōti, etc.).

(dial.) the structure, constitution, strength, form or appearance of the body; physique.

a relatively thin, broad piece cut from an object having some bulk or volume or a whole; a bit; a slice; a fragment.

the coarse flour of a grain, corn etc.

(in comp.) sharp; acute; harsh; biting; sever.

a forest dwelling woman.

the part of the human body below the ribs and above the hips, usu. of smaller circumference than these; the narrower middle part of the normal human figure; the waist.

either of the two fleshy protuberances on the lower rear part of the human body; the posterior; the buttocks.

a hard or dry substance (as a piece of bread that has lost moisture in it).

the end or corner of a thing.

to cut or puncture using the teeth; strike or bite (something) with a beak; to bite; to peck.

(an irritation in the skin) to be felt, (a desire to scratch it) to be caused.

a fold of skin over the navel.

to divide; to cut; to severe; to fell.

to break up and remove or turn over soil, ground, etc., with a tool, one's hands; to dig.

to be cut, severed, divided or felled.

(fig. often. sarc.) to ahieve something that is difficult or great.

ಕಡಿದು ಕಟ್ಟೆಹಾಕು kaḍidu kaṭṭehāku (said sarcasticaly or in anger) to achieve something that is great or difficult; 'you have done a tremendous job' . ಕಡಿದಾಟ kaḍidāṭa (fig.) a mutual beating; ಕಡಿದಾಡು kaḍidāḍu (fig.) to beat mutually (as in a quarrel); ಕಡಿದವನ ಪಾಪ ಖಡ್ಗ ಮಾಡಿದವನಿಗುಂಟೆ? kaḍidavana pāpa khaḍga māḍidavaniguṇṭe? responsibility of not using a means for a vile purpose lies on the user rather than on the inventor of that means.

the part of the human body below the ribs and above the hips, usu. of smaller circumference than these; the narrower middle part of the normal human figure; the waist.

a kind of liquid food made with buttermilk, vegetables, spices, etc.; curds mixed with salt, chillies, mustard, etc. and some rice flour boiled and seasoned.

an assurance that one will or will not undertake a certain action, behaviour, etc.; a promise.

an oblong roll of cotton thread.

a long, slender piece of wood for walking with or beating; a stick.

an informal unit for measuring the area of a bounded region or a plane.

a stick, graduated or not, used in measuring the land-area.

an old unit of measure.