దుమ్ము
Telugu edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit धूम (dhūma). Doublet of ధూమము (dhūmamu).
Noun edit
దుమ్ము • (dummu) n (plural only)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Konda-Dora [script needed] (ḍumu, “bone”).[1]
Noun edit
దుమ్ము • (dummu) n (plural దుమ్ములు)
- (particularly North Andhra) bone
Derived terms edit
- దుమ్ములగొండి (dummulagoṇḍi, “hyena”)
References edit
- "దుమ్ము" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 602
- దుమ్ము at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
- ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) chapter 2965, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257.