to reduce to powder or fine particles by crushing and friction; to grind; to powder; to pulverise.

to crush or squeeze (as a sugar cane, leaves, to get juice out); to work up (flour, clay etc.) into a plastic mass (dough) by pressing and folding it with the hands; to knead.

to be reduced to powder.

to be distorted; to lose one's original form or shape.

to cause to study laboriously; to teach thoroughly.

ಅರೆದುಕುಡಿ aredukuḍi to learn or study thoroughly; ಅರೆದುಕುಡಿಸು aredukuḍisu to teach thoroughly; ಅರೆದುಹೊಯ(ಯ್ಯಿ) areduhoy(yyi) to teach thoroughly; ಅರೆದವ ಕುಡಿದಾನು aredava kuḍidānu (prov.) as you brew, so you must drink.

a large mass of stone.

an open excavation for building stone, slate etc.; any source of building stone; a quarry;

ಅರೆ ಆಳು are āḷu half the turnover or quantum of work a normal person can do in a day; ಅರೆ ಉಣಿಸು are uṇisu insufficient food; ಅರೆಮಾಡು aremāḍu to make incomplete; to stop a job without completing; ಅರೆಯಾಗು areyāgu to become deficient; to be incomplete.

either of two equal parts into which a thing or quantity is or may be divided; a half.

that which is not a whole (not necessarily being half).

a few things (uncertain ones).

a falling short; deficit, insufficiency; deficiency.

a recess or hollow in a wall, as for a statue, bust or vase; a niche.

a space within a building enclosed by walls or separated from other similar spaces by walls or partitions; a room.

a sliding box in a table, bureau, chest, etc., that can be drawn out and then pushed back into place; a drawer.

a kind of percussion instrument, used in folk-dance.

want of digestive power; inability to digest food.

any one of the rods connecting the hub with the rim of a wheel; a spoke.

somewhere; at some place.

sometime; at some unspecified time.

a few; not many; in small, limited or restricted number.

ಅರೆಬರ್ arebar (pl.) a few people.

half - a) being either of the two equal parts; b) being about a half of the amount, length, etc.

incomplete; fragmentary; partial.

an interjection expressing wonder or objection.

to be missed; to be lost.