a receptacle made by a bird for its eggs and young; a nest.

a place of protection, rest, retreat or lodging.

distance from end to end; length.

distance from the bottom to the tip; height.

that which is stretched out.

measuring much from end to end in space or from beginning to end in time; not short or brief; long.

measured from end to end rather than from side to side; long.

= ನೀಟು3.

= ನೀಟು2.

a losing or being lost; loss.

= ನಟುವ -1.

a male dancer.

a man, who acts in plays, movies, etc.; an actor.

Śiva, the presiding deity of dancing art.

one of the castes in India.

an illegitimate son of a kṣatriya (a man of military caste).

a kind of tall, slender grass (genus Phragmites), with plume-like inflorescences, growing in wet or marshy land; reed.

the tree Jonesia asoca (= Saraca indica) of Caesalpiniaceae family.

= ನಟ್ಟು3.

an adjectival morpheme predicable before certain words as an intensifier in the sense 'the very centre'.