dying; coming or has come near to one's death; being in the last stage of one's life.

died; expired.

one's spent life.

a very old man or a man in the dying condition.

= ಕಥಾಯಿ.

fit to be narrated or written as a story.

that which is fit to be written as a story or narrated.

that can be or fit to be expressed in words, represented by language; expressible.

a speech sound or series of them, serving to communicate meaning.

the ordinary form of written or spoken language, without rhyme or meter; speech or writing that is not bound by the rules of prosody as poetry; prose.

that can be, fit to be, eaten as food; eatable; esculent.

a substance that can be or fit to be eaten as food; an eatable; an esculent.

a kind of cloth.