an intelligent, shrewd but mischievous person.

a long, narrow root between hills or mountains.

a stretch of low land (lying by a hill or mountain).

a flight of steps leading to water (or bed) of a tank, river, etc.

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 wild buffalo, Bos gaurus; a bison.

an oblong roll of cotton thread.

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.

the end or corner of a thing.

a fold of skin over the navel.

an old coin of small denomination.

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

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

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

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.

name of a minor deity.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.