to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; to soak.

to wet thoroughly; to saturate or drench.

to become wet or drenched.

to become liquid; to be liquefied; to melt.

to soften; to make gentle and tender.

an excessive interest in or enthusiasm for some one thing; craze; monomania.

to mix and work (dough, clay, etc.) into a pliable mass by folding over, pressing, and squeezing.

to hit repeatedly with a hard, heavy blows or impact.

= ನಾತ.

a young louse; a nit.

the act, habit or an instance of stammering; impediment in one's speech.

to speak with involuntary pauses or blocks, often with rapid repetitions of syllables or initial sounds, as temporarily from excitement, embarrassment, etc. or chronically as a result of muscle spasms; to stutter; to stammer.

ನತ್ತಿ ಮಾತಾಡು natti mātāḍu = ನತ್ತು1; ನತ್ತಿ ಮಾತಾಡುವವನ ಮಾತು ಸುತ್ತಿ ತೊಳಲಿದರೆ ಪಟ್ಟು ಆದೀತೆ? natti mātāḍuvavana mātu sutti toḷalidare paṭṭu ādīte? (prov.) stammering cannot be cured by travelling widely; each defect or disease needs a specific cure.

a kind of ornament for the nose; a nose-jewel.

ನತ್ತಿನವಳು nattinavaḷu a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity for pay; a prostitute.

connection of persons by blood, marriage, etc.; kinship; relation.

a cause that brings or motivates to bring a result.

a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course and emptying into an ocean, a lake or another river; a river.

ನದೀ ದಾಟಿ ಬದೀಲಿ ಬಿದ್ದ nadī dāṭi badīli bidda (prov.) accomplished a great and very difficult thing but failed in a fairly easy one; jumped over mountains but stumbled while crossing a threshold.