to perceive visually; to see; to look at.

to judge or determine the worth or quality of; to appraise; to evaluate.

to think or ponder over; to analyse carefully.

to come upon or encounter as to see or for a discussion.

to readily encounter or oppose.

to know; to understand.

to go over or look through for the purpose of finding something; to search.

to tend (the sick, injured or aged; to nurse.

to observe carefully; to notice.

to understand or realise through experience.

a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference or to inform someone else; a note.

a piece of paper currency; a currency note.

a written promise to pay a sum of money or a written acknowledgment of a debt from which a promise of payment can be inferred; a promissory note.

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.

= ನಡೆ1.

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.