Cavara: 3 definitions

Introduction:

Cavara means something in Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

cavara (चवर).—m A plant, Maranta arundinacea. According to Graham, Curcuma caulina. It overspreads the table land of Mahabaleshwar.

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cavara (चवर) [or चंवर, caṃvara].—n (cāmara S) A chowrie; a fly-whisker made of the tail of Bos grunniens. 2 fig. The shreds and raggedness (of a peg or stake frequently beaten on the head, of a writing reed, a walking stick &c. much used). v .

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cavara (चवर) [or चवरगोंडा, cavaragōṇḍā].—m Ornamental tassels made of strips of the bark of paḷasa and other trees; bound on the horns of bullocks on the day after full moon in Shrawan̤.

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cāvara (चावर).—m Commonly cāhūra 2 n An instrument for making the deep furrows necessary for sugarcane.

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cāvarā (चावरा).—a (cāvaṇēṃ) Addicted to biting--horse &c.

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cāvarā (चावरा).—See in order under cāvharā.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

cavara (चवर) [or caṃvara, or चंवर].—n A chowrie; a fly-whisker made of the tail of Bos grunniens.

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cāvara (चावर).—m An instrument for making deep furrows.

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cāvarā (चावरा).—a Addicted to biting.

context information

Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Cavara (ಚವರ):—

1) [noun] a fan made of the long hair of yak (Bos grunniens).

2) [noun] the profession of fanning in a royal court.

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Cavara (ಚವರ):—[noun] the middle-sized small tree Erinocarpus nimmoanus of Tiliaceae family, with fibrous bark.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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