పోరు
Telugu
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *pōr (“fight, war, battle”). Cognate with Tamil போர் (pōr), Malayalam പോര് (pōrŭ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poːɾu/
Verb
పోరు • (pōru) (causal పోరించు)
Noun
పోరు • (pōru) ? (plural పోళ్ళు)
- a fight, combat, struggle, quarrel
- troubling
- ఆ పిల్ల పోరు పెట్టుచున్నది.
- ā pilla pōru peṭṭucunnadi.
- The child is giving a lot of trouble.
Derived terms
- పోరాడు (pōrāḍu, “to fight, struggle, quarrel”)
References
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Dravidians: prehistory and culture”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 8
- "పోరు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 820