கிளை

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From களை (kaḷai).

கிளை • (kiḷai) (transitive)

1. to remove, purge
2. to wash, (as rice)
3. to put off (as garments)
4. to pry out

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கிளை • (kiḷai)

1. (intransitive) to ramify, branch out
2. to multiply, increase in number
3. to be close, to throng, crowd, grow thick or close, as the beard, boughs, herbage, grain
4. to come into being, appear
5. to abound, be copious
6. (transitive) to dig up, to stir, scratch up (as fowls)
7. to root up (as pigs)
8. to burrow into (as rats)
9. to excavate

கிளை • (kiḷai)

1. branch, bough
2. sprout, shoot, bud
3. bouquet, bunch of flowers
4. kindred, relations
5. section, division
6. class, group, herd, flock, shoal, company, family, horde, race
7. bamboo
8. a kind of flute
9. (music) the fifth note in the gamut

• University of Madras (1924–1936), “கிளை”, in Tamil Lexicon, Madras [Chennai]: Diocesan Press