Tamil meaning :sense of shame, bashfulness, modesty
Tamil derivates :nāṇam shyness, coyness (as a feminine quality), bashfulness in certain relationships (as the mother-in-law towards her son-in-law, as a man in a gathering of women), embarrassment, delicate regard, esteem, respect, shame, sensitive dread of evil, shrinking as a sensitive plant to the touch, shying as a startled animal; nāṇu (nāṇi-) to be shy, feel bashful, embarrassed, be abashed, shrink back, feel repugnance or dislike; nāṇal feeling bashful, modest; nāṇi (-pp-, -tt-) to be shy, bashful; n. bashful person
Malayalam :nāṇam
Malayalam meaning :shame, feeling of honour, modesty, bashfulness, disgrace
Malayalam derivates :nāṇikka to be ashamed, bashful; nāṇippikka to make ashamed; nāṇuka to be ashamed
Kannada :nāṇ
Kannada meaning :bashfulness, sense of shame, embarrassment, shame, modesty; inherent excellence, grace; that is a cause of shame, an organ of generation
Kannada derivates :nāṇcu, nāñcu, nācu to become abashed, ashamed or embarrassed; caus. nāṇcisu, etc.; nāñcike, nācike, nācige bashfulness, sense of shame, shame, modesty, decorum, inherent excellencɛ, grace
Kodagu :ñāṇa
Kodagu meaning :shame
Tulu :nāṇu, nāṇa
Tulu meaning :nakedness, nudity, the buttocks
Tulu derivates :nācuni to blush, be ashamed; nācikè, nācigè shame, modesty, blushing
Tamil meaning :kaus, a large and coarse grass, Saccharum spontaneum; penreed grass, S. arundinaceum; bulrush (= kōrai); lalong grass, Imperata arundinacea
Tamil derivates :nār_u (nār_i-) to emit a sweet smell, give forth perfume, stink; smell (tr.); nār_al stinking, stench; nār_r_am smell, scent, odour, sense of smell, offensive smell, stench, toddy; nān_am fragrant substance, musk, musk deer, civet, ungruents for the body, perfumed oil for bathing, scented hair-oil, fragrant powder; nar_u fragrant; nar_umai odour, perfume; nar_a, nar_avam, nar_avu, nar_ā, nar_ai odour, fragrance, honey, toddy, incense; nan_avu, nan_ai toddy, honey
Malayalam :nār_uka
Malayalam meaning :to yield a smell, stink
Malayalam derivates :nār_r_am smell, bad smell; nār_r_uka to smell; nār_r_ikka to spread a smell; nar_u fragrance, odour; fragrant; nannam scent as of a dog, smell; nannikka to sniff; nappu scent, tracing a theft, etc.
Kannada :nār_u
Kannada meaning :to yield a smell, smell, stink; n. smell
Kannada derivates :nā smell; nāta, nātu, nānta smell in general, a bad smell; nar_u, nar_a fragrance, odour, scent, smell
Kodagu :nār- (nāri-)
Kodagu meaning :(something) smells
Kodagu derivates :nāta smell (usually bad smell); (Shanmugam) nāt- to make to smell
Tamil derivates :nār_u (nār_i-) to sprout, shoot forth, come into being, be born, appear, rise; nār_u seedlings reared for transplantation, shoot, sprout; nār_r_u seedlings reared for transplantation; nār_r_am origin, appearance
Malayalam :ñār_u
Malayalam meaning :young plant fit for transplanting
Malayalam derivates :nār_uka to grow up
Kannada :nāṭu
Kannada meaning :(Gul.) to sprout
Kannada derivates :nāṭgi a sprout
Kodagu :nē̈r- (nē̈ruv, nē̈nd-)
Kodagu meaning :(person or thing) rises up or comes to view, (plant) becomes tall, straighten oneself so as to become tall
Tamil meaning :to become loose, slip off as bangles, languish, faint, be tender-hearted, blossom, melt as wax, become thin, emaciated
Tamil derivates :ñekiẓam, ñekiẓi a tinkling anklet; nekiẓ (-v-, -nt-) to be injured, ruined, become loose, slip off as a garment, grow lean and weak, expand, blossom, become soft and mashy as over-boiled rice, lack cohesion as earth wet by rain, melt, relent as the heart in pity, exude, flow out (as tears from the eyes, milk from the breast), be reduced to powder, give way, yield as to the axe in cutting, forsake; (-pp-, -tt-) to make loose, relax, cause to expand or open as a blossom, separate, detach, crush, bruise, discharge as an arrow; nekiẓcci loosening, slackening; tenderness of feeling; neku (nekuv-, nekk-) to become soft, relaxed, loosened, soaked and ready to break, melt, relent (as the heart), slip off, be ruined, scattered, broken, be ground well, macerated; nekkal that which is relaxed, overripe fruit, anything rotten or decayed; nekku being soaked as the ground after rain, relaxing, dissolving, being broken in pieces; (?) nukai (-v-, -nt-) to become lax, loose (as a garment), become soft (as the earth from rain); (-pp-, -tt-) to relax, loosen, slacken, mitigate, soften
Malayalam derivates :nikappu filling up, levelling; nikattuka, nikarttuka to fill up, level, mend, perfect; nikaẓttuka to fulfil
Kannada :nigi
Kannada meaning :(Hav.) to fill a hole
Tulu :neggi, neggya, niggyụ, niggya
Tulu meaning :full, complete
Tulu derivates :nigiyuni to be levelled, be filled up as a pit; nigipuni to level; nigipāvuni to cause to level; nugiyuni, nuggiyuni to be filled up; nugipuni, nugupuni to fill up, as a pit
Number in DED :3658
Proto-South Dravidian :*ne(g)g-
Meaning :to suffer
Tamil :neku (nekuv-, nekk-)
Tamil meaning :to suffer, be distressed
Kannada :negaru
Kannada meaning :(Hav.) to suffer in sickbed
Tulu :neggi, negi
Tulu meaning :shyness, shame
Tulu derivates :(B-K) nigarụ, negarụ to linger as a sick person
