Tamil meaning :to close, shut (as a flower), contract, shrink, lose courage
Tamil derivates :kūppu (kūppi-) to close, contract, shut in (as an umbrella), draw in (as the sun its rays), join hands as in worship; n. joining hands as in worship; kuvi (-v-, -nt-) to close (as flowers by night); (-pp-, -tt-) id., draw in (as the sun its rays in setting); kuvaḷai blue nelumbo [which closes by day]
Malayalam :kūmpuka
Malayalam meaning :to close (as flowers)
Malayalam derivates :kūppuka id., salute by joining both hands, worship; kūppu closing; kuvaḷa waterlily
Kannada :kōvaḷ, kōhaḷ, kōḷe, kōmaḷe
Kannada meaning :blue waterlily
Number in DED :1894
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūmpu
Tamil meaning :mast of a vessel, cone-shaped pinnacle of a chariot, bud
Tamil derivates :(Koll.) kūmp cone-shaped hut
Malayalam :kūmpu
Malayalam meaning :mast of ship, peak, bud, cabbage of palm tree, spiral end of plaintain bunch
Tulu :kūvè, kuvè
Tulu meaning :mast
Number in DED :1895
Proto-South Dravidian :
Kannada :kūr
Kannada meaning :to sit down
Kannada derivates :kūrisu to cause to sit
Number in DED :1900
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūran_
Tamil meaning :dog
Tulu :kūra
Tulu meaning :(B-K) dog
Tulu derivates :kūri bitch
Notes :Cf. DEDR 1796.
Number in DED :1901
Proto-South Dravidian :
Kannada :gūru
Kannada meaning :phlegmatic and asthmatic disease
Tulu :gūru
Tulu meaning :asthma, cough
Number in DED :1903
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūrai
Tamil meaning :sloping roof (commonly thatched with grass or palm leaf), small hut
Tamil derivates :kurampai small hut, hovel, shed
Malayalam :kūra
Malayalam meaning :hut, thatch
Number in DED :1904
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūlam
Tamil meaning :grains, esp. of 18 kinds, viz. nel, pul, etc.
Number in DED :1906
Proto-South Dravidian :
Kannada :kūlu
Kannada meaning :a sloping flight of stairs leading down to the water of a tank
Number in DED :1908
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūval
Tamil meaning :a well, hollow, hole, pit
Kodagu :kūva
Kodagu meaning :shallow well (where water can be dipped by hand)
Tulu :guvelụ
Tulu meaning :a well
Miscellaneous :KOR (T) kuyyelɨ a well
Notes :Prob. < Skt. kūpa
Number in DED :1909
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūviḷam, kūviḷai, kūviram
Tamil meaning :bael, Aegle marmelos
Malayalam :kūvaḷam
Malayalam meaning :Aegle marmelos; Crataeva religiosa
Kannada :kumbaḷa-mara
Kannada meaning :Aegle marmelos
Number in DED :1910
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūẓai
Tamil meaning :that which is short; dwarf snake, Calamaridae
Tamil derivates :kūẓai-kkaṭā, kūẓai-kkiṭā tailless he-buffalo; kūẓai-kkai, kūẓaŋ-kai maimed hand; kūẓai-kkompan_ ox with blunt horns; kūẓai-nari short-tailed fox; kūẓaiyan_ short, stunted person
Kannada :kūẓe, kūḷe
Kannada meaning :stump of jōḷa left in the ground to push out new shoots, stubble in general
Number in DED :1914
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūḷam
Tamil meaning :broken pieces of straw or hemp, chaff, sediment
Malayalam :kūḷam
Malayalam meaning :chaff of corn, etc.
Number in DED :1916
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūḷi
Tamil meaning :large species of eagle
Number in DED :1920
Proto-South Dravidian :
Kannada :gūr_u
Kannada meaning :to turn or uproot the earth with horns or tusks
Number in DED :1922
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūr_u-koḷ
Tamil meaning :to stuff, cram
Malayalam :kur_ummuka
Malayalam meaning :to eat greedily, cram in
Kannada :kuluku
Kannada meaning :(?) to fill with force, cram into, stuff
Number in DED :1923
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūr_ai
Tamil meaning :cloth, clothes
Malayalam :kūr_a
Malayalam meaning :a set of cloths, thick cloth
Kannada :kor_e
Kannada meaning :clothes
Notes :Cf. DEDR 2255.
Number in DED :1925
Proto-South Dravidian :
Malayalam :kūr_a, kūr_ān
Malayalam meaning :insect, moth, cockroach
Kannada :kūr_e
Kannada meaning :a kind of cloth-louse
Number in DED :1926
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kūn_
Tamil meaning :cauldron
Tamil derivates :kūn_ai large earthen boiler, baling bucket
Malayalam :kūna
Malayalam meaning :(DCV) earthen vessel
Kannada :kūni
Kannada meaning :earthen basin used by oilmen
Number in DED :1928
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kumur_i
Tamil meaning :a kind of pigeon
Kannada :gūva
Kannada meaning :dove
Number in DED :1930
Proto-South Dravidian :
Tamil :kekkaṭṭam
Tamil meaning :loud laughter
Tamil derivates :kekkali (-pp-, -tt-) to laugh violently; n. loud laughter
