the building which a monk lives in; a monastery.

a religious institution engaged in the propogation of education, religion, etc.

an institution incepted in memory of a great person, engaged in social service or development.

a place where food is provided gratis for travellers, esp. pilgrims.

a building for the worship of a divinity or divinities.

the place where a person or thing is ordinarily found; ಮಠಕ್ಕೆ ಮಣ್ಣು ಹೊರು (ಹಾಕು) maṭhakke maṇṇu horu (hāku) (sarc.) to go to a school.

a religious institution usu. headed by a monk.

a place or institution for teaching and learning; a school.

that which is done, acomplished; a work done.

the act or process of constructing; construction.

the way in which something is constructed; manner or method of building.

the character of a woven fabric as determined by the arrangement, size, quality, etc. of the fabric's threads; texture.

the shape, outline or configuration of anything; structure as apart from color, material, etc.; the form.

loveliness; beauty.

the act or process of decorating; decoration.

behaviour of a woman intended to excite admiration or love in men merely for the sake of vanity or mischief; flirtation; coquetry.

the quality or fact of each of the constitute elements or parts being proportional to each other and to the whole.

a way, manner in which some thing is, is to be etc.

accepted or habitual practice.

the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; magic.

that which is made by human beings, as diff. from the natural one; an artificial thing.

a magic used for evil purposes; witchcraft; sorcery; black magic.

ಮಾಟ ಮಾಡಿಸು māṭa māḍisu to get witchcraft, sorcery used for evil purposes; ಮಾಟ ಮಾಡು māṭa māḍu to use witchcraft, sorcery for evil purpose.

= ಮಾಡ1.

a religious institution usu. headed by a monk.

a place or institution for taching and learning; a school.

the back part of the human foot; the heel.

the structure of a chariot.

the fleshy part on the back of the shank.

a multi-storeyed building.

a house.

any of the storeys above the ground floor; upstairs.

the end of the slanting rMof of a house.

the roof of a house in gen.

the frame of the door at the entrance of a building, to which door panels are attached.

a little house of the plainest or crudest kind with a thatched roof.

a portable structure for carrying a corpse in sitting position.

a recess or hollow in a wall, for keeping small things; a niche.

a hole; a cavity.

one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.; a cave.

a dam constructed across a river for storing and diverting water for irrigational purpose.

a small opening made on the side of a channel through which water is drawn to a field.

an agricultural land given as a gift to a temple.

a food offered to a deity.

the leavings in a dining plate, in which someone has taken the food.

to give a blow; to prod or poke; to knock with the first or the back of the finger; to punch.

the grass Saccharum sara ( = S. munja) of Poaceae family.

= ಮಟ್ಟ1.

to bend (cloth, paper, etc.) over upon itself; to fold.

to pull off or out (as a flower from a plant); to pluck.

to force to bend or to become curved; to bend.

to be suspended; to be hung.

to become lower in level; to sink in.

to bend oneself; to be bent or become crooked.

(the tongue) to become dry and inactive (from bewilderment, fear, etc.).

to shut oneself; to undergo shutting.

to pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; to die.

to come to an end; to be over.

an implement used to level the ploughed field (?).

= ಮಟ್ಟಿ2.

the fibrous coat of a cocoanut.

a brush for white washing made of the fibrous coat of a coconut.

a bough of the palm, cocoanut or date tree.

the cocoanut tree itself.

well-ripe cocoanut.

the plant Strobilanthes integrifolius of Acanthaceae family.

= ಮಟ್ಯ.

a horizontal plane.

an instrument for determining the evenness of a horizontal surface.

an extent, measure or degree of intensity, achievement, etc.

an act of preparing or the state of being prepared; preparation.

a cubic measure, length being four cubits, width four cubits and depth one cubit.

a measure of height equal to the height of a normal man (approx. equal to five to five and half feet).

a period, level or degree in a process of development, growth or change.

a division or grouping according to grade or quality; a class.

the condition of being directed or restrained; restraint; control.

the quality or fact of being low or relatively low in height; shortness.

a deficiency in the amount extent, quantity needed.

low quality.

a kind of weapon.

the point, level, line, edge where something must end; a limit.

a linear measure of four spans.

the quality or fact of not being pointed, but short and round.

uselessness; worthlessness.

ಮಟ್ಟ ಮಾಡು maṭṭa māḍu to make level; to even the surface; 2. to bring under control; 3. to remove or ward off; 4. to cut short; to reduce the size; ಮಟ್ಟ ಹಾಕು maṭṭa hāku to make level; to even the surface; 2. to destroy; to erase; 3. to bring under control; ಮಟ್ಟಾಗು maṭṭāgu to be levelled; (the surface) to become even; 2. to be warded off; to be removed; 3. to lose the pointedness; to become short and blunt.

lose and dusty soil; mud.

a kind of clay used to make sectarian marks with.

a raised ground or small hill; a hillock.

a kind of soft, red soil used for preparing a wrestling ground.

a thick growth of low, woody plants with several permanent stems instead of a single trunk, growing together; a bush; a shrub.