the tall herb Foeniculum vulgare ( = Anethum pannori) of Apiaceae family.

its aromatic seed.

another herb Pimpinella anisum of the same family.

its seed.

a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usu. made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide; a soap.

a kind of hunting by driving the prey from its hole or the bush it is hiding in.

a tract made by repeated passage of wild animals in a forest; a beaten path.

an indication, token; a sign.

mental concentration; attention.

an animal hunted or killed for food by another animal or a person; a prey.

a protecting; protection.

the duty of a watchman, guard.

to keep from occurring; to avert; to prevent; to hold back from action.

to remove, expel, drive out by force.

to demolish or destroy completely.

= ಸಾಫ3.

(correctly, ಸಾಪ) a calling on God or the gods to send evil or injury down on some person or thing; a curse.

the stalk of certain plants as jowar, which is used as fodder.

the dry outer covering of various fruits or seeds, as of an ear of corn, coconut, etc.; husk.

(fig.) that which is useless.

= ಸೊಪ್ಪೆ.

to reduce to dust or powder, by or as by pounding or grinding; to pulverise.

to demolish or destroy completely.

(pl.) leaves of a plant; leafage; foliage.

any herb whose leaves and stems; a potherb.

ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸವದಿ soppu savadi = ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸದೆ; ಸೊಪ್ಪುಹಾಕು soppu hāku (dial.) to drive (an evil spirit or spirits) out or away using the foliage of certain plants; 2. (fig.) to pay heed and attention; to regard (as valuable); ಸೊಪ್ಪು ನಾರಾಗಿ ಬಡಿ soppu nārāgi baḍi to crush by beating heavily; ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸೊಗಡು sopu sogaḍu = ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸದೆ; ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸದೆ soppu sade foliage and litter.

lack of strength, vigour; weakness.

a wrinkle or wrinkles on the face as from old-age or persistent worries.

ಸೊಪ್ಪಾಗು1 soppāgu to lose strength, vigour completely and become very weak; 2. to become helpless, ineffective from or as from defeat; 3. (things) to be strewn loosely or disorderly; 4. to become completely distorted or to lose the original shape (from or as from squeezing). ಸೊಪ್ಪುಸೊವಡಾಗು soppu sovaḍāgu = ಸೊಪ್ಪಾಗು1.

a sound. ಸೊಪ್ಪಾಗು2 soppāgu (a sound) to be produced, made.

overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; arrogance; haughtiness.

the stalk of certain plants as jowar, which is used as fodder.

the dry outer covering of various fruits or seeds, as of an ear of corn, coconut, etc.; husk.

(fig.) that which is useless.

a calling on a god to send evil or injury down on some person or thing; a curse.

a scolding in a contemptuous language.

a formal declaration of one's intent and resolute decision that one would stand by it; an oath.

ಶಾಪತಟ್ಟು śapa taṭṭu = ಶಾಪತಗುಲು; ಶಾಪಹಾಕು śapa hāku to scold; to reprove; ಶಾಪಾದಪಿ ಶರಾದಪಿ in any way whatever; by any means, honest or dishonest; by hook or by crook; ಶಾಪತಗುಲು śapa tagulu (one's curse) to become effective.

= ಸಪ್ಪೆ.

(correctly, ಸರ್ಪ) a snake or serpent.

not having any taste; tasteless.

not interesting; not lively; boring; vapid.

the quality of being tasteless; tastelessness.

(fig.) the quality or condition of being uninteresting, boring; dullness; vapidity.

= ಸಾಫು1.