originally - a) with reference to origin or beginning; b) in the first place; initially; c) in an original manner.

name of a Dravidian language that does not have script of its own.

to lift up.

to cause (a plant) to grow up.

to come strugglingly up or upward.

to remove or lift (a veil, cover) up.

to march against (with a military force) to attack.

to bring to or cause to come to, prosperity; to make (something) flourish.

that which is soft or tender.

the quality of being soft or tender; softness; tenderness.

= ಮೆಲ್ಲಿತು.

a soft-natured man.

= ಮೆಲ್ಲಿತು.

(fig.) gentleness, kindness of disposition; kind-heartedness.

= ಮೇಲುದು.

a loose, unsewn garment used by men to cover the upper part of the body.

that part of a saree (a garment worn by Indian women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder) which covers the breasts.

= ಮೇಲುದು.

the jasmine plant Jasminum grandiflorum ( = J. officinale) of Oleaceae family.

its fragrant flower.

the plant Aganosma caryophyllata of Apocynaceae family.

= ಮಾಲದೀ.

(dial.) a kind of sweet dish.

= ಮಾಲದೀ.

joined; associated.

mingled agreeably or coherently.

made up of different or incongruous parts, groups, elements, classes, races, etc.; mixed.

called upon; met.

a mixing or being mixed; the state or fact of being joined, associated or mixed.

closed; not open; shut.

half open.

gone out of sight; disappeared.

gathered; assembled.

(rhet.) an implied simile in which the similarity between two objects is only implied.

the large-sized tree Terminalia arjuna ( = T. Glabra) of Combretaceae family.

another tree Terminalia crenulata of the same family.

another tree Terminalia tomentosa ( =T. alata) of the same family.