a kind of fish .

a hollow place in a solid body or mass; a narrow excavation made in the ground; a cavity; a hole.

a communication passed or sent (in writing, by signals, etc.); a message.

the duty of an ambassador or envoy.

= ತುತ್ಥ.

to take (food) in morsels and swallow.

to destroy completely.

= ದೂದು.

that quantity of food which one can hold in one's palm or put into one's mouth at one time; a morsel.

food in gen. (esp. as a basic human requirement).

a thing that a person can get or achieve.

a condition (usu. an unpleasant one) that one has to undergo or endure inevitably.

ತುತ್ತಾಗು tuttāgu to become food for; to become a victim; 2. to be subject to; ತುತ್ತಿನ ಚೀಲ tuttina cīla (fig.) the stomach; 2. (fig.) one's regular requirement of food; ತುತ್ತು ಕದ್ದವ ಎತ್ತು ಕದಿಯದೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟಾನೆಯೇ? tuttu kaddava ettu kadiyade biṭṭāneye? (prov.) he that will steal an egg, will steal an ox too.

a man as related to his son or daughter; a male parent; a father.

a term used in addressing an elderly man.

= ದಾತಾರ1.

one's elder brother.

a term of endearment or respect used in addressing a boy or man.

a person whose behaviour is rough, quarrelsome, and disorderly; a hoodlum; a rowdy.

past. & pp of the verb ತಳ್3.

that which is given.

a boy adopted into one's own family by legal process as a son.

the abbreviated form of Dattātrēya, one of the Hindu Gods.

a suffix used in names of men.

a man who donates generously.

that has been cut.

past. & pp of the verb ತಳ್2.

any stringed musical instrument.

air.

any percussion instrument having tied with a skin membrane on one or both sides.

that which is or has been; a thing that has actually happened or is really true.

extending or extended over a relatively large area.

one's male parent; father.

the father of one's father or mother; grand-father.

an aged man.

a term of respectful familiarity to any elderly man.

a term used to express one's disgust, disappointment, contempt, etc.