the state or quality of being important, superior or excellent; significance; consequence; importance; superiority.

the state of being, the duties of a teacher; teachership.

the quality of being highly sharp, intense; the greatest degree (of anything).

the quality or state of being a) harsh, hard, rigid; b) hot; very warm.

the act of cutting, severing or cutting into pieces.

a killing; slaughter.

too great a desire to have something; greed; avarice.

a greedy, covetous man.

the act of tying, binding or stringing together.

the act of causing (a liquid) to become coagulated; coagulation.

a writing, composing (of a literary work).

the act of levying tax or taxes.

= ಖರೆಯತನ.

a bad or inauspicious day; the day following the day of eclipse or solstice.