to become reduced in size; to contract.

to become crooked, bent.

to feel fear; to be afraid.

to lose enthusiasm, courage or interest; to be disheartened, dejected.

to lose moisture, freshness; to become dry.

to have wrinkles; to become wrinkled (as skin).

that which is wound, coiled.

a fold of the skin of the body.

a kind of disease that makes the skin become loose and form folds.

a folded layer of a cloth.

any bristlelike fibre or fibres, as on the head of wheat, barley, paddy, etc. awn.

similar sharp fibre on leaves of some plants.

(correctly, ಶಕ) 1. a system of reckoning time by numbering the years from some important occurrence or given point of time etc.; an era.

a period of time considered in terms of noteworthy and characteristic events or developments; an epoch.

(masc.) an intimate companion; a friend; a confidant.

the abode of gods; heaven; paradise.

the tree Tectona grandis of Verbenaceae famiy, with hard, yellowish-brown wood, used for house-building, furniture, etc.; teak; Indian oak.

a system of reckoning time by numbering the years from some important occurrence or given point of time (as Śalivāhana śaka, Vikrama Śaka, Krista śaka (Christian era), etc.; an era.

a period of time considered in terms of noteworthy and characteristic events, developments; an epoch.

(hist.) the north-western region of India which was ruled by people belonging to Śaka race.

that race itself.

= ಶಾಖ1.