a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food; honey.

the nest or hive of bees.

any bee that collects and stores honey, esp. Apis mellifera; honey-bee.

the mature female of a bovine animal, of the genus Bos; a cow.

a cow that has just calved.

the wish-yielding celestial cow.

a female elephant.

a cow or something in lieu of it, donated to a brāhmaṇa.

land; field.

a long, hand-held, weapon with a sharp-pointed blade and a handle at one end; a sword.

farm animals collectively; cattle; livestock.

any one of them.

an amount of worldly possessions, esp. money or valued property; wealth.

ದನದ ಮೈಲಿ dadnada maili a contagious disease affecting the udders of cattle, the virus contained in which is used to inoculated to people immunising against smallpox;

ದನ ಕಾಯಿ dana kāyi to take the cattle out for grazing; 2. (used scornfully) 'you are good for nothing' or 'do something that does not require the brain.

standard pieces of gold, silver, copper, nickel, etc., stamped by government authority and used as a medium of exchange and measure of value; money.

riches; wealth.

the livestock, considered as wealth.

(Astrol.) the second house from one's birth house in the zodiac.

(math.) a plus sign; '+' 6) (astrol.) the remainder got when the area of a building site is multiplied by 2/3, which is used to foretell the luckiness or otherwise of the dwellers of the building to be constructed thereon.

= ತಾಣ.

a thread, fibre.

the elaboration of a mode of music (rāga) in an organised and gradual manner.

(fig.) a monotonous, tiresome speech.

the act of donating, gifting.

that which is so given.

a giving of bribery, as one of the four expedients used to weaken or defeat one's enemy.

the liquid exuded from the temples of an elephant in sexual excitement.

base form of the pronoun (corresponding to he, she, it in English) used in reflexive or reciprocal sense

ತಾನು ಮಾಡುವುದು ಉತ್ತಮ, ಮಗ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಮಧ್ಯಮ, ಆಳುಮಾಡುವುದು ಹಾಳು tānu māḍuvudu uttama, maga māḍuvudu madhyama,āḷu māḍuvudu hāḷu (prov.) self-done is well done; ತಾನು ಹಿಡಿದ ಮೊಲಕ್ಕೆ ಮೂರು ಕೊಂಬು tānu hiḍida molakke mūru kombu (prov.) all that one does must be right; all that he says is law; ತಾನೂ ತಿನ್ನ, ಬೇರೆಯವರಿಗೂ ಕೊಡ tānū tinna, bēreyavarigū koḍa (prov.) he neither enjoys, nor does he allow others enjoy.

to become cool or colder; to lose temperature.

that is cool or cold.