Halage: 1 definition

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Halage (ಹಲಗೆ):—

1) [noun] a long, broad, thick wooden board.

2) [noun] the board on which chess or dice-game is played.

3) [noun] one round of play in any of these games.

4) [noun] a board made ready for painting on.

5) [noun] a kind of defensive shield.

6) [noun] a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow hemisphere with a wide mouth on which a membrane stretched tightly, played by beating with the sticks; a kind of drum.

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Haḷage (ಹಳಗೆ):—

1) [noun] (rightly, ಹಲಗೆ [halage]) a long, broad, thick wooden board.

2) [noun] the board on which chess or dice-game is played.

3) [noun] one round of play any of these games.

4) [noun] a board made ready for painting on.

5) [noun] a kind of defensive shield.

6) [noun] a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow hemisphere with a wide mouth on which a membrane stretched tightly, played by beating with the sticks; a kind of drum.

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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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