= ಬಸವಿ - 1.

an uncastrated ox; a bull.

Nandi, the bull-vehicle of Śiva.

a bull left in the name of a god to wander and graze at its will.

Basava, a reformer of twelfth century.

(fig.) an idle man who roams about without taking any responsibility.

ಬಸವನ ಕಣ್ಣು basavana kaṇṇu a kind of eye disease; ಬಸವನ ಕೊಂಬಿನ ಹುಳು basavana kombina huḷu = ಬಸವನ ಹುಳು; ಬಸವನ ಕೋಡಿನ ಹುಳು basavana kōḍina huḷu = ಬಸವನ ಹುಳು; ಬಸವನ ಬಿಡು basavana biḍu to allowin the name of a god a bull to wander at its will; ಬಸವನ ಹುಳು basavana huḷu any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about; 2. (fig.) anything that moves, progresses in a very slow pace.

a girl symbolically married to the god of a temple, and who has to spend her life in the service of the temple and also as a prostitute.

a cow left in the name of a god, to wander and graze at its will.