ప్రకృతి
Telugu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रकृति (prakṛti).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -తి
Noun edit
ప్రకృతి • (prakr̥ti) f (plural ప్రకృతులు)
- the original or natural form of anything, natural condition or state, original or primary substance.
- cause, origin, source.
- nature, character, constitution, disposition, temper, temperament.
- nature, (as opp. to Purusha or Spirit) the creation, universe.
- (mathematics) a coefficient, multiplier.
- the common people (collectively).
- (grammar) the crude elementary or radical form of a word, a primitive word root, radix, radical, etymon.
- a metre having 21 syllables per line of verse.
Antonyms edit
- వికృతి (vikr̥ti)
References edit
"ప్రకృతి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 824