Kanarese Definition

kănə-rēz, -rēs
noun
Any of a group of Kannada-speaking peoples living chiefly in Kanara.
Webster's New World
The Kannada language. No longer in current use.
American Heritage
A member of a Kannada-speaking people of southwest India. No longer in current use.
American Heritage

Kannada.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of Kanara or its people, language or culture.
Webster's New World

Origin of Kanarese

  • Alteration of Kannada Kannaḍa –ese

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Kanarese Sentence Examples

  • Of these last the chief dialects are Gondi, Oraon or Kurukh, Kandhi and Kanarese, of which Gondi is by far the most important.

  • Imad-ul-Mulk was by birth a Kanarese Hindu, but had been captured as a boy in one of the expeditions against Vijayanagar and reared as a Mussulman.

  • In the form of rao it appears as a suffix to the names of most Mahrattas, and to the names of Kanarese Brahmans.

  • The Kanarese rivers have a larger body of water and a more regular flow than the streams of the Konkan.

  • The chief languages of the presidency are Sindhi in Sind, Cutchi in Cutch, Gujarati and Hindustani in Gujarat, Mahratti in Thana and the central division, Gujarati and Mahratti in Khandesh, and Mahratti and Kanarese in the southern division.

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Words Starting With

KKAKAN

Words Ending With

ESEESE

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Kanarese

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