the quality of being black; blackness.

that which is black.

the quality of being rough, hard; lack of smoothness; roughness.

that which is burnt to charcoal.

a black paste made by burning the dried skin of plantain fruit, with water, used to have a sectarian mark on the forehead with.

(dial.) the black crust which forms at the bottom of a cooking pot or a frying pan.

a kind of finger-ring.

(dial.) a very tender coconut.

(dial.) scrapings of such a coconut.

to become black; to lose lustre, freshness or original vigour ( as from fatigue, guilt, etc.).

= ಕರು2 - 1.

the quality of being stiff and brittle, easily broken, snapped or crumbled; crispness.

leaves that are fallen from the plants and dried.

a small water container with a handle, a snout or nozzle.

frozen rain falling in a shower or storm of pellets; hail.

the tree bearing this fruit, Punica granatum of Punicaceae family and its fruit; pomegranate.

a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth; a forest.

the tree Terminalia chebula of Combretaceae family.

its nut; myrobalan.

a structure or place where a bird lays eggs and shelters its young; a nest.

a water pitcher; a pot.

the hard outer cover of the coconut kernal; coconut shell.

the terminal part of the arm from the wrist to the tip of fingers; the hand.

a regular and mandatory payment made to a ruler by his subordinate ruler; tribute.

a kind of bird.

a water-jar.

a festival observed on the full moon-day of the 12th month of a lunar year, in which a man, dressed as a woman runs on the roads carrying on his head jars filled with water without holdig them.

a folk dance prevailing in some parts of Tamiḷ Nāḍu and Kēraḷa.

ಕರಗದಮ್ಮ karagadamma a female deity of ಕರಗ.