a system for transmitting speech or computerised information over distances; a telephone.

total destruction; annihilation.

the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths; a colour.

the colour that resembles blood; red.

a pigment suspended in a liquid medium and applied with or as with a brush, roller, etc. as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art; a paint.

a picture painted on a canvas, paper, etc. applying paints; a painting.

any coloured cloth or clothing.

a colourful flower.

sort; variety; class; kind.

the original form or state of being.

the quality of a thing that attracts; beauty.

brightness; lustre; shininess.

pretentious behaviour or speech; pretension; hypocrisy.

a song in praise of.

the power to do something, grasp immediately and comprehensively, etc.; mental ability.

a person whose achievement or merit excels another or others.

purity of gold, silver (as expressed with the unit 'carat').

that which is apt, appropriate.

any of the four major classes (brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śudra) of old Hindu society.

the quality of being pleasant to the ears; melody.

a group, faction, clan.

the fold of skin near a cobra's head that expands when it is excited; a cobra's hood.

the whitish mass of bubbles formed on or in liquids by agitation, fermentation, etc.; foam.

any substance or article used as money, as bank notes, checks, etc.; money.

a usu. round piece of metal with a distinctive stamp, and of a fixed value and weight, issued by a government as money; a coin.

the money in circulation in any country.

the part of the face above the eyebrows; the forehead.

the top part of the skull or head; the crown.

the fold of skin near a cobra's head that expands when it is excited; a cobra's hood.

a thin, long plank of wood.

a stick; a staff.

a short staff used by boys in playing 'cinni-dāṇḍu.

unrefined sugarcane juice.

a meal prepared by mixing flour of parched rāgi (sometimes, of rice) with curds.

a kind of sweet dish made of thinner strings, usu. eaten by mixing with milk and sugar.

a snake that can expand the fold of skin near its head when excited (as a cobra).

Nāgai, the presiding deity of the asterismāślēṣa (Epsilon Hydra).

Rāhu, the serpent-demon, eighth of the nine astrological planets.

a kind of acute, inflammatory virus disease, characterised of blisters on the back.

(arith.) a huge number having thirty-three digits (one followed by thirty two zeros).