a kind of meal made of rice, ragi or jowar flour and boiling water and, often, buttermilk; a porridge.
the water with which rice is washed before it is cooked;
ಅಂಬಲಿಕುಡಿಯುವವನಿಗೆಮೀಸೆತಿಕ್ಕುವವನೊಬ್ಬ ambali kuḍiyuvavanige mīse tikkuvavanobba (prov.) a beggar wants a servant to serve him; he who has no bread to spare should not keep a dog; ಅಂಬಲಿತುಂಬೆಸೊಪ್ಪುತಿನ್ನು ambali tumbesoppu tinnu (fig.) to have food of low standard owing to unaffordability.
(rightly - ಅಂಬುಹುಳ) any of small, wormlike marine animals with an arrow-shaped, finned, almost completely transparent body and feed on plankton of Chaetognatha phylum; arrow-worm.