the stem of any of the woody or treelike tropical and semitropical grasses of the genera Bambusa; a bamboo.

a kind of animal the skin of which is processed and used in making percussion instruments.

= ಛಾಪು.

a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows; a bow.

a part of the circumference of a circle; an arc.

a bow or arc of prismatic colours appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain.

the ninth sign of the zodiac; the Sagittarius.

(astrol.) a condition in which the positions of the nine planets are distributed in all the seven houses from the tenth to fourth houses of the zodiac.

(rhet.) a kind of tricky composition.

the quality of being tasteless; tastelessness.

(fig.) the quality or condition of being uninteresting, boring; dullness; vapidity.

a mark, impression made by imprinting; an imprint.

(fig.) an impression or effect produced, on another's or others mind, by one's influence, manner, knowledge, etc.

a kind of medicinal plant .

the space, amount or degree to which a thing extends; extent.

a small, flat piece of stone, used in games by children.

a relatively longer step or stride.

the act of leaping; a jumping.

a unit of linear measure, equal to the length of a relatively longer step or stride of a person (this unit is subjective and not a standard one).

the pushing of a marble, in a children's play, with the back of the palm with fingers bent.

in firearms, a small lever pressed back by the finger to activate the firing mechanism; the trigger of a gun.

(mus.) rhythmic stress or beat, in playing percussion instruments.

any of the two types of rhythmic scale having five or seven units in each cycle.

ಚಾಪು ಹಾಕು cāpu hāku (mus.) to play a percussion instrument with a particular rhythmic stress or beat.

a bundle of stalk left in fields after cutting the crops.

a flat, coarse fabric made of woven or plaited hemp, straw, rope, etc., used to sit on and occasionally as a screen.

ಚಾಪೆ ಹಾಕು cāpe hāku (fig.) to be courteous or give a warm welcome to a guest. 2. (fig.) to treat a person more preferentially (with favourable bias).

the science concerned with putting scientific knowledge to practical uses in planning, designing, construction or management of machinery, roads, bridges, buildings, etc.; engineering.

the art of carving wood, chiselling stone, casting or welding metal, moulding clay or wax, etc. into three-dimensional representations, as statues, figures, forms, etc.; sculpture.

the work of a person who stitches clothes or footwears.

= ಚಿಪ್ಪಿಗ.

a hard, bivalve outer covering, as of mollusc, insect, egg, etc.; a shell.

the hard shell of a coconut covering the kernel; coconut-shell.

the top bony top portion of the skull.

a small chest or box with a lid, as for jewels; a casket.

a thin piece of wood, bone, etc., made by splitting or breaking; a sliver; a splinter.

a thin and sharp piece of wood; a splint.

a kind of musical instrument.

the outer covering of anything.

a single cluster of banana fruits.

a shell or vessel having a hollow with a pointed mouth, used to feed milk to babies.

a piece of wood or stone that is tapering from a thick back to a thin edge, used as a wedge.

the grass Cymbopogan schoenanthus (= Andropogon schoenanthus) of Poaceae family.

to draw (liquid) into the mouth by creating a vacuum or partial vacuum with the lips, cheeks, and tongue; to suck.

having a sharp point or edge; suitable for use in cutting; sharp.

a piece of wood or stone that is tapering from a thick back to a thin edge, used as a wedge.