కానుక

From Proto-Dravidian *kāṇikkay (“gift”) or from కాను (kānu, “to see”). Using the latter etymology, it refers to an offering or gift on which the lord is supposed to cast his "glance".

• IPA^(key): /kaːn̪uka/
• Rhymes: -క

కానుక • (kānuka) n (plural కానుకలు)

1. An offering or courtesy, made in homage to a superior or to a god.
2. A gift.

• "కానుక" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 271
• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003), “Dravidians: prehistory and culture”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6
• in A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary by T. Burrow and M. B. Emeneau