a high wall, insurmountable or difficult to surmount from outside, built round a palace, town, etc., equipped with earthworks, for defence against attack; a rampart.

ಕೋಟೆ ಹೋದಮೇಲೆ ಪಹರೆ ಕಾದರು kōṭe hōdamēle pahare kādaru (prov.) to prescribe preventive medicine after the patient is dead; to try to stop the leak after the entire wine is run out; shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.

a screen or shade, usu. of cloth stretched over a folding radial frame, carried for protection against the rain or sun; an umbrella; a parasol.

an umbrella like thing used as a symbol of royal dignity.

a ring of light that seems to encircle the sun, moon or other luminous body, which is the result of the refraction of light through ice crystals in our atmosphere; a halo.

ಅಲ್ಪನಿಗೆ ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯ ಬಂದರೆ ಅರ್ಧ ರಾತ್ರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಡೆ ಹಿಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ alpanige aiśvarya bandare ardha rātriyalli koḍe hiḍisikoṇḍa (prov.) a petty man displays his vanity ostensibly or in a vulgar manner.

an upright structure of stone, brick, etc., (having a length much greater than the thickness) being a support to the roof, upper floor or floors, serving as a partition of a building, serving to enclose an area, to separate fields, etc.; a wall.

ಗೋಡೆಗೆ ಕಿವಿಯಿರು gōḍege kiviyiru (fig.) a place having persons who overhear and leak out; ಗೋಡೆಗೆ ತಲೆ ಚಚ್ಚಿಕೊ/ಹಾಯಿ gōḍege tale cacciko/hāyi to react helplessly in frustration.

a cap made of soft wool.

to make a dent, wound with a pointed weapon (as a knife, dagger, etc.).

to make or shape by or as by cutting, chipping, hewing, etc; to carve.

to grind into shreds or particles by scraping; to grate.

to feel pain, grief; to suffer.

to become abnormally lean; to become emaciated.

= ಕೊಡುಗೆ2 -1.

(dial.) cold wind blowing from the west during winter season.

summer season.

= ಘೋಟ.

a man dwelling in a forest; a forest-dweller.

an unrefined, uncultured or uncivilised man.

a man belonging to brāhmaṇa caste.

the auditory sensation produced by vibrations in air, water, etc.; sound.

(dial.) an instrument for weighing; a balance.

the garden lizard,with an angular head, prehensile tail, eyes that move independently of each other, and a long, agile tongue for catching prey, known for its changing colour; a chameleon.

an inhabitant of a forest; a forester.

a man who lives by hunting; a hunter.

a minor deity.

the colour of charcoal; black colour.

the act or an instance of annoying; annoyance; a troubling or trouble; vexation.

ಕಾಟಕೊಡು kāṭa koḍu to annoy; to trouble; to pester; to vex; ಕಾಟ ಹಾಕು kāṭa hāku to force or constrain, to do or restrain from from doing something; to compel.

strong, pungent and stifling smell as of red chilly, tobacco, etc.

a largedeer (Cervus unicolor) with coarse hair, a short, erectile mane, and three-pointed antlers; an Indian sambar.

the part at, toward or near either of the extremities of anything; tip; end.

a flat, coarse fabric made of straw used as a floor covering or to sit on; a straw mat.

the outskirts of a city or town.

a time; period of time; a season.

the hip and loins; the hollow above the hips.

the fleshy side of a person or animal between the ribs and the hip; the flank.

the dead body of a person; corpse.

a place for the burial or cremation of the dead bodies; a cemetry; a crematory.

a portable framework on which a corpse is carried.

a long, broad, thick wooden board; a plank.

a plant lasting or living only one year or one season.

The grass Saccharum sara (= S. munja) of Poaceae family.

plentifulness; bountifulness; excessiveness; abundance.

either of the flat surfaces alongside the forehead, in front of each ear of an elephant; the temples.

either of the two bones or bony parts that hold the teeth and frame the mouth in most vertebrates; the jaw.

a pointed straight missile to be shot from a bow; an arrow.

a social convention carried on by tradition and any violation of which is disapproved by the social system; a custom.

the fine, dust-like mass of grains that are produced in the anthers or microspore sacs of seed plants, containing the male sexual cells (gametophytes) of the plant; pollen.

a stretch of rising land at the edge of a body of water, esp. a river.

a basin at the bottom of a tree or a levelled wet agricultural land with raised mound on all sides, for holding water.