the merchant community.

a male member of this community.

a merchant.

a prominent member in the society.

= ಶಟಿ.

deceitful; fraudulent.

malignant; wicked.

a man who habitually cheats others; a cheat.

a rascal; a scoundrel; a rogue.

a cheating or being cheated.

a hero, in a play, who pretends affection for one woman while his heart is fixed on another.

a woman who habitually cheats others; a cheat; a rougish, dishonest, unscrupulous woman.

= ಶಠ2 - 3.

the plant Curcuma zeodarina ( = C. zerumbet, =Amonum zerumbet) of Zingiberaceae family.

an aromatic substance obtained from the dried, pulverised rhizome of this plant.

a cloth (in gen.).

a clean, washed cloth.

an underskirt, often trimmed and hemmed, worn by women and girls.

the hair at the lower part of the abdomen surrounding the external genitals; pubes.

= ಶಾಟ1.

a loose long cloth to cover the upper portion of the body or worn loosely above the upper garment.

the safron-cloth used by mendicants, monks and other religious or saintly persons.