most excellent or superior.

senior; older; elder.

a man who is first in rank, authority or importance; a principal man.

(collectively) descendants from a common ancestor; lineage; family.

any person from whom one is descended; an ancestor.

a man who is recognised as the ancestor of a family.

any of the forty two lineages, ascribed to different sages.

a child as related to its parent or parents.

the plant Phaseolus mungo of Papilionaceae family.

its gram used for human consumption; black gram.

the cactus plant Opuntia dillenii of Cactaceae family; prickly pear.

unnecessary or unwanted explanation.

(pros.) name of a metre.

= ಪಱಿಮಱಿ.

(pl.) the banks of a river; the shore of the ocean.

the ocean.

a limit; a boundary.

(jain.) a mythological era of a period of time that is astronomically huge.

= ಪುರಹರ.

(said of a river in floods) a flowing beyond the banks; an overflowing.

= ಪೊರವಾರು.

any enormously huge tree.

the small-sized tree Oroxylum indicum ( = Bignonia indica) of Bignoniaceae family, the bark of which contains tannin.

another large, deciduous tree Ailanthus excelsa of Simaroubaceae family.

= ಪೊರವಾರು.

= ಪಱಿವಡೆ.