to prod or pierce the nose.

(fig.) to put forward the face and bring the nose near an object as to grasp the smell of it.

a small flat-roofed, temporary structure, raised on four pillars having no walls on any side, which is gaily decorated, for keeping an idol.

= ಮುಕುರ1.

the letter 'ಮ' (pronounced with the vowel ಅ).

a container made of interwoven bamboo splits, strips of wood, cane, etc., usu. without a handle; a basket.

a basin-like container made of bamboo splits used for fetching water from a water body into a channel.

a monk or religious mendicant.

= ಮಖಧ್ವಂಸಿ - 1.

a kind of cloth.

the small-sized tree Xeromphis spinosa ( = Gardenia floribunda, Randia dumetorum) of Rubiaceae family.

= ಮುಕುರು.