వంకాయ
Telugu
వంకాయ.
Etymology
వంగ (vaṅga) + కాయ (kāya)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -య
Noun
వంకాయ • (vaṅkāya) ? (plural వంకాయలు)
- The vegetable called a brinjal or eggplant - Solanum melongena.
- కొన్నది వంకాయ, కొసరినది గుమ్మడికాయ
- konnadi vaṅkāya, kosarinadi gummaḍikāya
- What he bought was a brinjal, what he got to boot was a gourd.
References
- "వంకాయ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1116