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Definition of Telugu

1. Noun. A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.

2. Noun. A Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu in southeastern India.

Definition of Telugu

1. n. A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali.

2. a. Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.

Definition of Telugu

1. Proper noun. A Dravidian language of India. ¹

2. Proper noun. A member of the people who speak the Telugu language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telugu

Teletubbies Teletubby Telford Tell el-Amarna Tellima Tellima affinis Tellima grandiflora Tellus Teloogoo Teloogoos

Telopea Telopea Oreades Telopea speciosissima Telosporidia Telugu (current term) Temminck's tragopan Temminck's tragopans Temnospondyli Tempe Tempean

Temperance Temperate Zone Templar Templars Temple Mount Temple in Jerusalem Temple of Apollo Temple of Artemis Temple of Heaven

Literary usage of Telugu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit by David Edwin Pingree (1994)
"Incomplete. Osmania University 826/A. 45ff. Telugu. With a Telugu tika. ... H.26) and Madras 1878 (IO 608); with a Telugu tika and a Telugu translation by ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"A dictionary, Telugu and English. Explaining the colloquial style used in business ... A grammar of the Telugu language. 2. ed. with an English translation, ..."

3. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The earliest writer on Telugu grammar is said to have been a sage called Kanva, who lived at the court of Andhra-raya, the king in whose reign Sanskrit is ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"He was appointed in 1838 Persian translator, and in 1846 postmaster-general and Telugu translator to the Madras government, and became at the same time a ..."

5. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1902)
"The observations of Mr. Hatch, particularly upon the Telugu Mission, comprise some ... There is no doubt that you know more about the Telugu work than I can ..."

6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"Telugu, on the other hand, which uses the neuter demonstrative instead of the feminine singular, uses the final fragment of the same demonstrative as the ..."

7. A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company: Supplement by East India Company Library, East India Company (1851)
"Telugu Prose. 18mo. Madras, 1850 Circular Orders of the Court of ... from 1805 to May 1845, translated into Telugu by R. Ramiah. 8vo. ..."

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