అప్పు

See also: అప్ప

Telugu

Etymology

Related to అచ్చు (accu, “to be in debt, owe, incur or suffer loss”) and Tamil அரி (ari, “tax, duty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apːu/
• Rhymes: -ప్పు

Noun

అప్పు • (appu) n (plural అప్పులు)

1. (banking, accounting, finance) loan, debt

   Synonyms: అరువు (aruvu), ఋణము (r̥ṇamu)

Coordinate terms

• (with regard to ownership) చేతివెల (cētivela), రొక్కము (rokkamu)

References

• "అప్పు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 65
• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “ari”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 20.