దయ

Telugu

Noun

దయ • (daya)

1. favor, kindness, grace, regard
2. love, affection, attachment
3. mercy, pity, tenderness, clemency, compassion
4. pleasure, goodness, amiability, a kind heart

Derived terms

• దయచూపు (dayacūpu)
• దయచేయు (dayacēyu)

References

• దయ at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• "దయ" in J. P. L. Gwynn (1991) A Telugu-English dictionary, Oxford University Press, page 257
• "దయ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 581
• Budaraju Radhakrishna (1971) “దయ”, in Early Telugu Inscriptions (up to 1100 A.D.) with Texts, Glossary & Brief Linguistic History., Kalabhavan, Saifabad, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi, page 343.