కురుచ
Telugu
editAlternative forms
edit- కురచ (kuraca)
Etymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Tamil குறு (kuṟu, “short, dwarfish, defective”), Malayalam കുറു (kuṟu, “short, little, brief”), Kannada ಕುಱು (kuṟu, “smallness”).
Pronunciation
editIPA(key): /kuɾut͡ɕa/, [kuɾut͡ʃa]
Adjective
editకురుచ • (kuruca)
- little, short, stumpy, diminutive, dwarfish
- కురుచవేల్పు ― kurucavēlpu ― stumpy god
References
edit- "కురుచ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 297
- Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “kuṟu”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168.