a contagious disease, the most common form of plague, caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) transmitted by fleas from infected rats, and characterised by buboes, fever, prostration, and delirium; bubonic plague.

= ಪಾಲಕ್ಯ.

he who protects, takes care of, tends, etc.; a protector.

a ruler; a king.

a protecting or being protected; protection.

a horse.

= ಪಲ3 - 2.

= ಪಲ್ಲಕಿ2.

a long, broad, thick wooden board.

the board on which chess or dice-game is played.

one round of any of these games.

a board made ready for painting on.

a kind of defensive shield.

a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow hemisphere with a wide mouth on which a membrane stretched tightly, played by beating with the sticks; a kind of drum.

= ಪಲಂಗ.

= ಪಲಂಗ.

a piece of furniture sanding on four legs with a flat rectangular surface to lay the bed and sleep on; a couch; a cot.

a structure of canvas, cloth, metal, etc. extended around the body, just above the opening of a chariot, palanguin, etc. either as a protection from the sun, rain, etc. or as a decorative piece; a kind of awning.

a room in a house with a couch to sleep on; a bed-room.

an uncovred litter for carrying an idol of a deity, a venerable person etc. in procession or a covered litter, for one person to sit in, carried by poles on the shoulders of two or more men; a palankeen.

= ಪಲ್ಲಂಗ.

a dried leaf or leaves of a plant.

a kind of medicinal plant.

the grain-bearing spike of a cereal plant; an ear.

the fact of being used for long; usage.

repeated action; practice.

the process or fact of training or being trained.

to utter a sound; to produce a vocal sound.

(sound) to be produced in undulated manner; to be wavy.

to sing or hum a song.

(fig.) to utter an inauspicious thing or foretell an evil happening.

the quality of sound, musical note, etc. (produced vocally or by playing on a musical instrument) that is clear, distinct and accurate.

the sense of a word or expression suggested indirectly as opp. to its literal sense).

= ಪಲುಕು2.

= ಪಾಲಕ್ಯ.

= ಪಲ್ಲಂಗ.

a kind of cloth.

= ಪಾಲಕಿ.