to love; to have warm affection for.

to be liked; to get fondness from.

(a god, a holy man, etc.) to favour; to be gracious to.

to consent to; to agree with.

to praise; to applaud; to commend.

ಮೆಚ್ಚಿದವರಿಗೆ ಮಸಣವೂ ಸುಖ meccinavarige masaṇavū sukha = ಮೆಚ್ಚಿದ ಹೆಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಮರದ ಓಲೆ ಸಾಕು; ಮೆಚ್ಚಿದ ಹೆಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಮರದ ಓಲೆ ಸಾಕು meccida heṇṇige marada ōle sāku (prov.) love or liking tends to be biased favourable towards loved; love sees no fault; if accustomed, even worst things can be endured.

love; affection; fondness.

that which is loved, liked.

a gift of love or given out of pleasure.

consent; approval.

praise; compliment; applaud; commendation.

the state of being decorated ornamented.

a sticky, colloidal carbohydrate found in certain trees and plants; gum.

the plantain tree Musa sapientum (var. champa) of Musaceae family.

its fruit.

the tree Moringa oleifera ( = M. pterygosperma, = Hyperanthera moringa) of Moringaceae family.

its slender, long fruit, used as a vegetable; a drum-stick.

a large, deciduous tree Bombax ceiba ( = B. malabaricum, = Salmalia malbaricum) of Bombacaceae family; Indian silk cotton tree.

= ಮಚ್ಚೆ1.

the purity or extent of purity of precious metals as gold, silver, etc.

a kind of black stone formerly used to test the purity of gold or silver by the streak left on it when it was rubbed with the metal; a touchstone.

any of three classes of coldblooded vertebrate animals living in water and having permanent gills for breathing, fins; a fish.

the shape of a fish.

the plant Solanum indicum of Solanaceae family; brinjal plant.

its fruit; wild brinjal.

the plant Artemisia indica of Asteraceae family.

another plant Artemisia maderaspatana ( = Grangea maderaspatana) of the same family.

name of various other plants as Quercus incana, Q. lusitanica ( = Q. infectoria), Q. robur, etc. of Fagaceae family.

a fruit of any of these plants.

= ಮಾಜು1.

= ಮೋಚ - 2 & 3.

a man whose work is mending shoes or making shoes to order; a cobbler.