కురుచ

• కురచ (kuraca)

From Proto-South Dravidian *kuṯ-V (“short”). Cognate with Tamil குறு (kuṟu, “short, dwarfish, defective”), Malayalam കുറു (kuṟu, “short, little, brief”), Kannada ಕುಱು (kuṟu, “smallness”).

IPA^(key): /kuɾut͡ɕa/, [kuɾut͡ʃa]

కురుచ • (kuruca)

1. little, short, stumpy, diminutive, dwarfish

   కురుచవేల్పు ― kurucavēlpu ― stumpy god

• "కురుచ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 297
• Burrow, T.; Emeneau, M. B. (1984), “kuṟu”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168.