a barrier built to hold flowing water back; a dam.

a boy; a lad.

a young brāhmaṇa student.

the large, evergreen ficus tree Ficus benghalensis of Moraceae family whose shoots grow from its branches and form new trunks, thus spread over a relatively wide area; a banyan tree.

a rope; a cord.

any small spherical object.

a kind of small, flat, round, spicy cake made of bengal gram, blackg gram, fried in oil.

the shell of any of mollusk Cypraea moneta; a cowrie.

similarity; likeness.

a circle or circular object.

Manmatha, the Love-God.

the liquid that is secreted from the temples of an elephant in rut.

the leavings in a dining plate.

the croaking sound of a frong.

a sound imitating it.

a fence or wall enclosing something (as garden, building, village, etc.).

a piece of enclosed ground.

a means of passing from one place to another, as a road, highway, street, path, etc.; a way.

a place where one is residing or belongs to.

a building or residence for monks or others who have withdrawn from the world for religious reasons; an institution of a monk or monks; a monastery.

a village or town.

a piece of ground for growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, etc.; a garden.

that which is made or consisting of the banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis).

the grass Panicum spicatum of Poaceae family.

= ವಟ್ಟ.

a slant room of a building.

a falling ground; slope.

a village or town.

a house; a residence.

a room, usu. at the etrance of a house where guests are entertained.

a shed for cattle; a cow-shed.

a large, independent house with enclosed courtyard around (as differentiated from an apartment).

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the stonelike seed of certain fruits, as of a mango; a stone; a seedpod.

a hard outer covering of a fruit, seed, etc. (as of coconut, stone-apple); a shell.

a village, town.

a region or district.

a shed or building where cattle are sheltered and fed; a cow-shed.

a row of houses.

an army or a division of an army.

a temporary place where a military force has stayed or to be stayed; an army camp.

a group of attendants or servants.

a soldier.

a place enclosed by a wall, fence, etc.

an extension in town or city.

a broad, burnt earthen hoop used for walling the inside of wells.

a store room or a large earthen ware for storinging grain.

one of the four social classes of erstwhile Hindu society; the merchant class.

a male member of this class.

a man in general.

waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement; faeces; ordure.

a man, who leads an unrestrained, sexually immoral life; a rake; a libertine.

a lover of a woman who is not married to him; a paramour.

a character, as a friend or companion, who accompanies the hero of a play, and who advises him in matters of love.

a cheat; a fraud; a deceiver.

a kind of mineral salt.

a coquettish or wanton woman.

= ವಿಟಿ.

waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement; faeces; ordure.

that which is inauspicious, unlucky, ill-omened.

any act regarded as such a transgression, esp. a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle; a sin.

a kind of salt fetid salt used medicially as a tonic aperient; a laxative salt.

a preparation of betel leaves, lime, arecanut etc. used to chew.