a plastic, dull-yellow substance secreted by bees for building cells; bees-wax.

a kind of adhesive paste prepared using the flour of some corns.

any of various solid or semisolid, viscous, yellowish or brownish organic substances exuded from various plants and trees, that is used as or in preparing adhesives; gum.

Manmatha, the Love-God.

compelling or strong love; passion.

= ಮೇನೆ.

= ಮೇಣು.

a bell hung in a temple or a small one used during worship.

a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry; a gem.

a gem believed to be in the hood of a serpent.

a small, round piece of glass, wood, metal, etc. with a hole for stringing with a string; a bead.

any of several types of seeds of certain plants or beads made from certain woods, in a rosary, used in a meditative devotional exercise.

a celestial gem, supposed to yield anything that one wishes for.

= ಮಣ್ಣು.

a rectangular or square wooden plank with legs, for sitting on.

a square board with squares of two alternating colours used to play chess on or a rectangular plank having two rows of seven hollows to play usu. with tamarind seeds.

ಮಣೆಹಾಕು maṇe hāku to place a seat before another to sit on. 2. (fig.) to give undue preference, respect, to; to be favourably biased towards.

= ಮಣಿಯ.

= ಮಾಡು.

a boy.

a young unmarried man, who is studying.

a male student.

a boy who serves customer in a restaurant.

a religious function, held just before sending student to the residence of the teacher for learning, in which he is initiated with the hymn of light (the Gāyatri hymn) by his father and invested with the sacred thread; (now that religious function only).