a building where a person or family normally lives in; a dwelling place; a house.

the internal affairs, as maintenance of law and order, etc., of a country.

a married woman, whose principal occupation is managing a household and taking care of domestic affairs.

the process or an instance of inviting; an invitation.

a call or the sound made in calling (a person).

seizure - a) the act of one who seizes or an instance of this; b) the state or an instance of being seized.

the act of receiving (something from another).

(myth.) Rāhu or Kētu, either of the two demons who are supposed to eclipse the sun or moon by swallowing them.

a large, opaque, non-luminous mass, usu. with its own moons, that revolves about a star; esp. any of the sun's nine major planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto; a planet.

(astrol.) any of the nine celestial bodies, as the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rāhu and Kētu, thought of as influencing human lives.

any of the evil spirits that are supposed to possess human.

the condition of being possessed by an evil spirit.

a Brahmaṇa.

the earth.

the living beings collectively.

the symbol for the number nine.

a dwelling place; a house.

(mus.) a note with which a rāga (musical mode) is begun or must be begun with.

the act of one who seizes or an instance of this; seizure; holding.

the act of receiving (something from another).

any rapacious animal, chiefly living in water, as crocodile, shark, hippopotamus, etc.

(myth.) name of a hell.

the act of drawing or squeezing milk from the mammary glands of (a cow etc.).

that which gives milk (as a cow, buffalow etc.).

= ಕರೆತ1.

= ಗೃಹಸ್ಥ.

= ಕುರುಹು1.

a weapon consisting of a hilt with a cross-guard and a long straight or curved blade with a sharp point, used for cutting and thrusting; a sword.

= ಕೆರ.