to speak with involuntary pauses or blocks, often with rapid repetitions of syllables or initial sounds, as temporarily from excitement, embarrassment, etc. or chronically as a result of muscle spasms; to stutter; to stammer.

ನತ್ತಿ ಮಾತಾಡು natti mātāḍu = ನತ್ತು1; ನತ್ತಿ ಮಾತಾಡುವವನ ಮಾತು ಸುತ್ತಿ ತೊಳಲಿದರೆ ಪಟ್ಟು ಆದೀತೆ? natti mātāḍuvavana mātu sutti toḷalidare paṭṭu ādīte? (prov.) stammering cannot be cured by travelling widely; each defect or disease needs a specific cure.

a young louse; a nit.

a kind of ornament for the nose; a nose-jewel.

ನತ್ತಿನವಳು nattinavaḷu a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity for pay; a prostitute.

the act, habit or an instance of stammering; impediment in one's speech.

an excessive interest in or enthusiasm for some one thing; craze; monomania.

to mix and work (dough, clay, etc.) into a pliable mass by folding over, pressing, and squeezing.

to hit repeatedly with a hard, heavy blows or impact.

= ನಾತ.

to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; to soak.

to wet thoroughly; to saturate or drench.

to become wet or drenched.

to become liquid; to be liquefied; to melt.

to soften; to make gentle and tender.

= ನತ್ತು2.

a thing that is bent backward, inward or downward, at one end.

a man bowed, bent in respect (before another or a deity).

the angular distance of a celestial body below the horizon; depression.