Kapile: 1 definition

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kapile (ಕಪಿಲೆ):—[noun] a device having pulley mounted on a stand by the side of a well, leathern bucket, and a rope for lifting water and worked with an ox or a pair of oxen.

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Kapile (ಕಪಿಲೆ):—

1) [noun] a brown cow.

2) [noun] (myth.) the wish-yielding cow of the Heaven.

3) [noun] the tree Dalbergia sissoo (=D. sissosa, = D. sissu) of Papilionaceae family.

4) [noun] the tree Mallotus philippensis (= Rottlera tinctoria) of Euphorbiaceae family.

5) [noun] the plant Aloe perfoliata of Liliaceae family.

6) [noun] a kind of medicinal substance made from this (?) plant.

7) [noun] a kind of perfume.

8) [noun] (myth.) the female of the elephant guarding the south-east quarter.

9) [noun] any of mostly flattened, annelid worms of Hirudinea subclass living in water or wet earth and having a well-developed sucker at each end and are bloodsuckers; a leech.

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Kapiḷe (ಕಪಿಳೆ):—[noun] = ಕಪಿಲೆ [kapile]2.

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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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