వేగు

See also: వాగు and వేగం

Telugu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *wey- (“roast, fry, heat”).

Verb

వేగు • (vēgu) (causal వేగించు)

1. to dawn
2. to watch without sleeping
3. (intransitive) to fry, or be fried
4. to endure, suffer, grieve

Derived terms

• వేగుచుక్క (vēgucukka, “planet Venus”)

Noun

వేగు • (vēgu) n (plural వేగులు)

1. (journalism) (public) news
2. espionage
3. a spy, a scout
   • 2022, Mani Ratnam, Elango Kumaravel, directed by Mani Ratnam, Ponniyin Selvan: I (Telugu dub), spoken by Aditha Karikalan (Vikram):

     వేగులు వార్తలు

     vēgulu vārtalu

     [According to] information [from our] spies

References

• "వేగు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1219
• "weegu" in J. P. L. Gwynn (1991) A Telugu-English dictionary, Oxford University Press, page 501
• వేగు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)