నారు

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *ñāṯu.

నారు • (nāru) ? (plural నాళ్ళు)

1. A tender young sprout, or plant.
2. Young plants kept to be transplanted.

   నారుమడి

   nārumaḍi

   a field thickly set with grain to be afterwards transplanted

• నారు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• "నారు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 647