= ಪರಿಹಾಸ - 1.

anything said or done to arouse laughter; a funny anecdote with a punch line; an amusing trick played on someone.

a deriding or being derided; contempt; ridicule; derision.

an act of imitating; comic or satirical imitation; mimicry.

cheerfulness; joyousness; happiness; merriness.

a laughing as from amusement, joy, etc.).

a man who is always clowning and trying to be funny; clown; a buffoon; a jester.

(rhet.) homorousness, as one of the sentiments.

he who redicules or a condition or event that given an opportunity to redicule.