a flexible strip of wood or metal, with both ends tied tightly with a chord, used to shoot arrows from; a bow.

a linear measure of four cubits.

(astrol.) the ninth sign of the zodiac entered by the sun about November 21; Sagittarius.

a large Southern constellation in the brightest part of the Milky way, beyond which lies the centre of our galaxy; the archer constellation; Sagittarius.

having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length; thin.

thin or slight (as to look light and graceful); slender.

small in size, amount, extent, etc.; small; meagre.

the whole physical structure of a human being or animal; the body.

the soft and flexible external covering or integument of an animal body; skin; ತನು ಮಾಡು tanu māḍu to cause to become thin, slender.

= ತಾನ್.

a role of cloth measuring totally forty yards.

= ದಾನಿ2.

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.