any of various accipitrine birds with long, pointed wings and, usu., a forked tail which prey esp. on insects, reptiles, and small mammals; a kite.

a person who does, performs or carries out a work; a doer.

a master; a owner; a ruler.

the man who originates, creates or initiates something.

(gram.) the noun or other substantive that is one of the two immediate constituents of a sentence and about which something is said in the predicate and with which the verb agrees; a subject.

(myth.) Śiva, who holds in his throat a deadly poison which he drank.

the creator of the universe; Brahma.

one who does, performs or works; a doer.

a man who is capable of applying knowledge to useful ends.

a master; a ruler.

a room or building for storing threshed grain; a granary.

the front part from the waist to the knees of a person in a sitting position; the lap.

a building where one normally lives; a house.

a path that is not wide; a narrow way.

a small wave.

a small screen, curtain.

a television receiving apparatus that converts the signals into electron beams that are projected against the fluorescent screen of the kinescope or picture tube, reproducing the original image; a television.

a small stream.

Tungabhadre, one of the important rivers of Karnāṭaka.

a narrow path.

= ಕಿರುತೆರೆ.

much higher in some quality or degree; much above the ordinary or average.

having or commanding respect or reverence.

a physical struggle; a battle; a fight.

an instrument for cutting fabric, paper, hair, etc., having two pivoted blades with finger and thumb holes in the handles, operating by closing on the material to be cut; a pair of scissors.

a small sword-like weapon; a dagger.

the back feathered end of an arrow.

a deep and narrow valley having little or no light.

the yeast foam that appears on the surface of malt liquors as they ferment; barm.

to kill a sheep.

(fig.) to kill or destroy in a violent way; to slaughter.

the act of killing violently; a slaughtering.

a person who acquires or aims to acquire possessions; a purchaser; a buyer.

the holder of a mountain as Viṣṇu in his second incarnation as a tortoise or in his eigth incarnation as Křṣṇa.

miscellaneous tax; a tax on miscellaneous items.