ప్రకృతి

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रकृति (prakṛti).

ప్రకృతి • (prakr̥ti) f (plural ప్రకృతులు)

1. the original or natural form of anything, natural condition or state, original or primary substance
2. cause, origin, source
3. nature, character, constitution, disposition, temper, temperament
4. nature (as opposed to Purusha or Spirit), the creation, universe
5. (mathematics) a coefficient, multiplier
6. the common people (collectively)
7. (grammar) the crude elementary or radical form of a word, a primitive word root, radix, radical, etymon
8. a metre having 21 syllables per line of verse

• వికృతి (vikr̥ti)

"ప్రకృతి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 824