1. ಶಂಖಿ

    ♪ śankhi
      noun
    1. the ocean.
    2. he who bears or blows a conch.
    3. Viṣṇu.

  2. ಶಂಖ

    ♪ śankha
      noun
    1. the large, spiral, univalve shell of any of various marine mollusks, a few of which are perforated at one end and used as a trumpet; a conch.
    2. the bone across the upper cheek, that forms the outer side of the eye's bony orbit; the cheek-bone.
    3. the bone comprising the front part of the skull and forming the forehead in humans; the frontal-bone.
    4. (myth.) name of one of the nine treasures of Kubēra, the Regent of Wealth.
    5. a kind of perfume.
    6. the white colour.
    7. a particular military array.
    8. a particular part of a horse (between the hip and the thigh ?).
    9. (math.) a huge number, one hundred billion (or 1,00,000 crore).
    10. (mth.) a symbol for the number seven.
    11. (math.) a very huge number (1 followed by nineteen zeros).
    12. (dance.) a particular gesture of the hands, in which the figures are both the hands are interlocked inside as if holding a conch for blowing it.
    13. ಶಂಖದ ಹುರಿಕೆ ṣankada hurike a kind of fragrant substance; ಶಂಖ ಬಾರಿಸು ṣanka bārisu (fig.) a loud outcry or clamour; ಶಂಖ ಪುಟಿಸು ṣanka puṭisu = ಶಂಖ ಬಾರಿಸು; ಶಂಖದ ಹುಳು ṣankada huḷu a kind of mollusk; ಶಂಖಚಕ್ರದ ಕೋಲು ṣanka cakrada kōlu a metal staff, having the symbols of a conch and a wheel, used to brand on the body; ಊದುವ ಶಂಖ ಊದಿಬಿಡು ūduvaṣanka ūdibiḍu to do one's duty without bothering whether it yields the desired result or not; ಶಂಖದಿಂದ ಬಂದರೇ ತೀರ್ಥ ṣankadinda bandarē tīrtha a statement is believed or accepted only when made by an authority and not by others (even the latterś statement is true).

  3. ಶಂಕು

    ♪ śanku
      noun
    1. the large, spiral, univalve shell of any of various marine mollusks, used as a trumpet; a conch.

  4. ಶಂಕು

    ♪ śanku
      noun
    1. a piece of hard material with two broad faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, that can be driven or forced into a narrow opening, as to split wood, raise a weight, etc.; a wedge.
    2. a hard object, having a circular base and a vertex point on a different plane, the vertical cross section resembling a triangle; a cone.
    3. an unhewn piece of a felled tree or a similar rough mass of wood.
    4. an instrument that indicates time by the position of a gnomoṇs shadow cast by the sun on the face of a dial marked in hours; a sun-dial.
    5. an instrument of a surveyor used in measuring lands.
    6. a skate fish.
    7. spear or javelin.
    8. a hole (as driven or bored into a solid object).
    9. the condition or quality of being complex; complexity.
    10. a destroying or being destroyed; destrution.
    11. (math.) the cardinal number ten billion.

  5. ಶಂಕೆ

    ♪ śanke
      noun
    1. a doubt; a suspicion.
    2. a hesitating or feeling hesitant from uncertainty, lack of confidence, etc.; hesitation.
    3. an anxious feeling; fear; apprehension.
    4. firm belief; trust; reliance; confidence.
    5. a cause for objecting; a reason for opposing, disapproving; an objection.
    6. mental derangement supposedly caused by an evil spirit.
    7. the natural pressure from within to discharge of urine, faeces, etc.
    8. (rhet.) a transitory sentiment of expressing regret for one's own or another's mistake, blunder or crime.
    9. (dance.) a moving of the eyeballs intermittently.

  6. ಶೇಂಗಾ

    ♪ śengā
      noun
    1. the spreading, annual plant Arachis hypogea of Papilionaceae family with yellow flowers and brittle pods ripening underground; groundnut; peannut.
    2. its edible seed; peanut.