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.

the grass Arundo bengalensis of Poaceae family; ribbon grass.

a length of the trunk or of a large branch of a tree felled pruned of its branches; a log of wood.

(mus.) a mode in Karnāṭaka system, derived from the main mode Calanāṭa.

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.

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to put ( a plant) into the ground; to plant.

to set (a pillar, stake, etc.) firmly into the ground; to fix firmly or cause to pierce into or through (usu. perpendicular to the surface).

(a sword, arrow, etc.) to pierce into; to penetrate into.

a point equally distant from all points on the circumference of a circle or surface of a sphere; centre.

the approximate middle point, place or part of anything; the central region.

the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, which is approximately the central portion.