the act or power of seeing with the eye; sense of sight; vision.

the organ of sight; the eye.

having a sharp point or edge; suitable for use in cutting; sharp.

a piece of wood or stone that is tapering from a thick back to a thin edge, used as a wedge.

the stem of any of the woody or treelike tropical and semitropical grasses of the genera Bambusa; a bamboo.

a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows; a bow.

a part of the circumference of a circle; an arc.

a bow or arc of prismatic colours appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain.

the ninth sign of the zodiac; the Sagittarius.

(astrol.) a condition in which the positions of the nine planets are distributed in all the seven houses from the tenth to fourth houses of the zodiac.

(rhet.) a kind of tricky composition.

a kind of animal the skin of which is processed and used in making percussion instruments.

= ಛಾಪು.

the space, amount or degree to which a thing extends; extent.

a small, flat piece of stone, used in games by children.

a relatively longer step or stride.

the act of leaping; a jumping.

a unit of linear measure, equal to the length of a relatively longer step or stride of a person (this unit is subjective and not a standard one).

the pushing of a marble, in a children's play, with the back of the palm with fingers bent.

in firearms, a small lever pressed back by the finger to activate the firing mechanism; the trigger of a gun.

(mus.) rhythmic stress or beat, in playing percussion instruments.

any of the two types of rhythmic scale having five or seven units in each cycle.

ಚಾಪು ಹಾಕು cāpu hāku (mus.) to play a percussion instrument with a particular rhythmic stress or beat.