కురుచ

Telugu

Alternative forms

• కురచ (kuraca)

Etymology

(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

IPA^(key): /kuɾut͡ɕa/, [kuɾut͡ʃa]

Adjective

కురుచ • (kuruca)

1. little, short, stumpy, diminutive, dwarfish

   కురుచవేల్పు ― kurucavēlpu ― stumpy god

References

• "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.