air taken into the lungs and then let out; breath.

the act of breathing; respiration.

a house of prostitution.

a secret place designated for a meeting or assembling.

to hit, strike or dash against; to attack.

to cause to join; to cause to meet.

to reach; to touch.

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 (which 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.

a place of protection.

the eleventh month in Hindu calendar.

the quality of being hot; hotness; heat.

brightness; radiance; brilliance.

the warmest season of the year; summer.

a restraining of one's biological needs, controlling of passions as a penance and living a moral and austere life, to achieve spiritual height.

an afflicted condition; pain; suffering; affliction.

a term of twelve years.

(usu. used in duplicate) a word formed by imitating or used to express the sound of repeated, heavy beatings.

= ದಫಾ.