క్రోవి
Appearance
See also: కొరవి
Telugu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- కోవి (kōvi)
Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Tamil குழல் (kuḻal), Malayalam കുഴൽ (kuḻal), Kannada ಕೊಳಲು (koḷalu), Tulu ಕೊಳಲ್ (koḷalŭ), Kodava [script needed] (koḷa). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]క్రోవి • (krōvi) n (plural క్రోవులు)
- A tube.
- A flute.
- A gun, musket, or pistol.
- Synonym: తుపాకి (tupāki)
- A bottle.
- An underground sluice.
- A crucible.
Synonyms
[edit]- క్రోలు (krōlu)
References
[edit]- "కోవి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 330
- "క్రోవి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 337
- క్రోవి at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
- Budaraju Radhakrishna (1971) “క్రోవి”, in Early Telugu Inscriptions (up to 1100 A.D.) with Texts, Glossary & Brief Linguistic History., Kalabhavan, Saifabad, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi, page 294.