a kind of sweet-meat, made using grit-like flour of wheat, ghee, etc.

any blood vessel that carries blood from some part of the body back toward the heart; a vein.

any natural combination of minerals, from which a metal or metals can be extracted; an oar.

the part of the body, in humans, above the neck or corresponding part in other animals; the head.

the front portion (of anything); top; summit; pinnacle; acme.

the top of a tree.

the root of a pepper plant.

a kind of large serpent.

ಶಿರದೊಳಾನ್ śiradoḷān to carry out (an order, command, instruction) faithfully and obidiently.

= ಶಿರಾ.

a particoloured thing.

air or wind.

a pawn used in the dice-game.

a piece or pawn used in chess, having very limited movements.

the cavity formed by open hands joined together and folded slightly; the hollow of the palms.

that much quantity which can be held in such a cavity.

the width, breadth of the palms so joined.

= ಶಿರ1 - 1.

a starting or commencing; a beginning.

ಶುರುಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳು śuru haccikoḷḷu = ಶುರುಮಾಡು; ಶುರುಮಾಡು śuru māḍu to start; to begin; to commence.

strong; powerful; valiant; heroic.