Mrittike, Mṛttike: 1 definition

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Mṛttike (ಮೃತ್ತಿಕೆ):—

1) [noun] earth; clay; loam.

2) [noun] a lump of clay or earth that is considered, for some purpose, as holy.

3) [noun] a kind of fragrant clay.

4) [noun] (myth.) name of a hell.

5) [noun] ಮೃತ್ತಿಕೆಯ ಲವಣ [mrittikeya lavana] mřttikeya lavaṇa common salt, natural sodium chloride, occurring in solid form, esp. in rock-like masses; halite; rock-salt.

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Mṛttike (ಮೃತ್ತಿಕೆ):—[noun] the part of a horse’s body just below the root of the tail or on either side of its anus.

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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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