the quality of being black; blackness.

that which is black.

the quality of being rough, hard; lack of smoothness; roughness.

(dial.) a very tender coconut.

(dial.) scrapings of such a coconut.

to become black; to lose lustre, freshness or original vigour ( as from fatigue, guilt, etc.).

the quality of being stiff and brittle, easily broken, snapped or crumbled; crispness.

leaves that are fallen from the plants and dried.

that which is burnt to charcoal.

a black paste made by burning the dried skin of plantain fruit, with water, used to have a sectarian mark on the forehead with.

(dial.) the black crust which forms at the bottom of a cooking pot or a frying pan.

= ಕರು2 - 1.

a kind of finger-ring.

a water-jar.

a festival observed on the full moon-day of the 12th month of a lunar year, in which a man, dressed as a woman runs on the roads carrying on his head jars filled with water without holdig them.

a folk dance prevailing in some parts of Tamiḷ Nāḍu and Kēraḷa.

ಕರಗದಮ್ಮ karagadamma a female deity of ಕರಗ.

= ಕರಿಂಕು.