to express audible sounds, syllables, words, thoughts, etc.; to utter.

to repeat a hymn or verse (as in worship).

to foretell (a future event) by or as by the influence of divine guidance; to prophesy; to predict.

(a musical instrument) to produce a sound or note.

to regard with scorn; to treat with contempt.

to give, in words, a detailed account of; to describe.

to make a promise; to promise.

to object; to express one's objection in (harsh) words.

that which is uttered as a word or words; an utterance.

all the vocal sounds, words, and ways of combining them common to a particular nation, tribe or other speech community; a language.

a sentence or statement made or written by someone quoted often by others; a quotation.

a short, traditional saying that expresses some obvious truth or familiar experience; a proverb; an adage.

the art of using words effectively and fluently in speaking or writing; eloquence.

a harsh censure or blame.

a command, direction or instruction, backed by authority; an order.

a foretelling; prediction of the future; prophecy.

a group of lines of a verse forming one of the divisions of song.

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.

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

= ನಟುವ -1.

a losing or being lost; loss.

he who has incurred a loss (as in trading, etc.).

the seedling of a plant ready for being transplanted.

the act or process of transplanting the seedlings.

the act or process of transplanting a tissue or an organ from one individual or part of the body to another; transplantation.

any undesired, uncultivated plant, growing amidst a desired crop or in a lawn, etc.; a weed.

= ನಟ್ಟು3.

a female dancer.

a woman, who acts in plays, movies, etc.; an actress.

a co-actress who takes part in the prelude along an actor arranging the plot of a drama.

a woman who offers sexual intercourse for payment; a prostitute.

a kind of perfume.