ఏరు

IPA^(key): /eːɾu/

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *cēr.

ఏరు • (ēru) ? (plural ఏళ్ళు)

1. a plough

   Synonym: నాగలి (nāgali)

Inherited from Old Telugu ఏఱు (ēṟu), from Proto-Dravidian *yĀṯu. Cognate with Manda (India) ଏଯ (ēy), Tamil ஆறு (āṟu), Malayalam ആറ് (āṟŭ), Kuvi ଏ୕ୟୁ (ēyu), Tulu ಉದೆ (ude), Tulu ಹುದೆ (hude).

ఏరు • (ēru) ? (plural ఏళ్ళు)

1. a river

   ఏరు యెన్ని వంకలు పోయినా, సముద్రములోనే పడవలెను

   ēru yenni vaṅkalu pōyinā, samudramulōnē paḍavalenu

   However many twists the river take, it must fall into the sea at last.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Kannada ಏಱ್ (ēṟ, “to glean, gather, pick off”).[1]

ఏరు • (ēru) (causal ఏరించు)

1. to pick up (things) one after another or one by one, pull up (weeds), gather up (papers)

   గింజలేరు

   giñjalēru

   to glean

2. to clean (rice)
3. to glean

• "ఏరు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 94
• ఏరు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• L. Chakradhara Rao et al, editors (1978-1995), “ఏరు”, in తెలుగు వ్యుత్పత్తికోశం [Telugu Etymological Dictionary] (in Telugu), Visakhapatnam (Waltair): Andhra University Press and Publications