Doddamma, Doḍḍamma: 1 definition
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusDoḍḍamma (ದೊಡ್ಡಮ್ಮ):—
1) [noun] an elder sister of one’s mother.
2) [noun] the wife of an elder brother of one’s father.
3) [noun] an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease caused by variola virus, characterized by vomiting, and pustular eruptions that often leave pitted scars or pockmarks, when healed; smallpox.
4) [noun] a folk-goddess, a form of Pārvati, who is believed to cause and remove this disease.
5) [noun] an acute infectious viral disease of cattle, characterised by fever and by hemorrhagic inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal.
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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