బోనము

Telugu

From Prakrit 𑀪𑁄𑀅𑀡 (bhoaṇa, “the act of eating; a meal, food”) +‎ -ము (-mu); itself from Sanskrit भोजन (bhojana). Doublet of భోజనము (bhōjanamu).

బోనము • (bōnamu) n (plural బోనములు)

food
Synonyms: భోజనము (bhōjanamu), భోజనంబు (bhōjanambu)
1. (by extension) meat, particularly a sacrificial offering
2. boiled rice
  Synonym: అన్నము (annamu)

Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) “10.3 Phonological principles governing loanwords from Indo-Aryan”, in The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 475.
"బోనము" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 916
బోనము at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)

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