a way of doing anything; a regular orderly, definite procedure or way; a method; a manner.

a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass, number, class or group; a specimen.

a person or thing regarded as fulfilling this conception; perfect model; an ideal.

= ಮಾತರ.

a main road; a highway.

a nun who is the head of a christian institution or monastery.

great joy or pleasure; delight.

name of an old country in the north-west part of India.

a woman as related to her children; a mother.

a woman as related to her child or children.

a cow.

any nonliving, intercellular substance in which living cells are embedded, as in bone, cartilage, etc.; matrix.

Lakṣmi, the Goddess of Wealth.

Durge, the wife of Śiva.

the sky.

the earth.

the full moon-day in Puṣya, the tenth month.

= ಮಾದಿಗ.

the extent, dimension, capacity, etc. of anything, esp. as determined by a standard; measure.

that much quantity, extent, degree, etc.

and no other; and no (or nothing) more; solely; only.

merely; simply; only.