Telugu-English Dictionary

by Peter Percival

TELUGU-ENGLISH DICTIONARY,

WITH THE

TELUGU WORDS PRINTED IN THE ROMAN,

AS WELL AS

IN THE TELUGU CHARACTER:

INTENDED

For the use of European Officers, Soldiers and others employed in the several Executive

Departments under the Government of Madras.

BY

THE REV. P. PERCIVAL,

PROFESSOR OF VERNACULAR LITERATURE.

PREPARED BY ORDER OF

HIS EXCELLENCY SIR CHARLES TREVELYAN,

LATE GOVERNOR OF MADRAS.

MADRAS:

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION PRESS.

1862.

ANGLO-TELUGU ALPHABET.

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Letters.

Of the 56 letters of the Telugu alphabet, 51 are used in this Dictionary, and they may be represented in the Roman character as follows:

Vowels.

అ a, as in delta.	ౠ rí, as in ream.
ఆ á, as in father.	ఎ e, as e in mendicant.
ఇ i, as in pin.	ఏ é, as e in grey.
ఈ í, as in pique.	ఐ ai, as ai in aisle.
ఉ u, as oo in good.	ఒ o, as o in police.
ఊ ú, as oo in food.	ఓ ó, as o in story.
ఋ ri, as in rill.	ఔ au, as ou in foul.
ం Anuswara m or n.	ః Visarga-h.

Consonants.

Gutturals.

క k, as k in king.

ఖ kh, aspirate of the preceding as kh in pack-horse,

గ g, as g in garden.

ఘ gh, aspirate of the preceding as gh in gig-horse.

n, as ng in angle. 

హ h, as h in hunger.

Palatals.

చ ch, as ch in church or ts, as in beats.

ఛ chh, the aspirate of the first చ as in coach-horse.

జ j, as j in jelly or dz, as in torridzone.

ఝ jh, the aspirate of the first జ j.

ఞ ñ, as gn in mignon or ni, in onion.

శ ś, as s in sure.

య y, as y in yellow.

Cerebrals.

ట ṭ, as t in trump.

ఠ ṭh, the aspirate of the preceding.

డ ḍ, as d in drum.

ఢ ḍh, the aspirate of the preceding.

ణ ṇ, the cerebral n.

ర r, as r in rule.

ఱ rr, as in worry.

ళ ḷ, the cerebral l.

ష sh, as in shop.

Dentals.

త t, as t in taper.

థ th, the aspirate of the preceding, as th in sweet-heart.

ద d, as in divine.

ధ dh, as dh in adhere.

న n, as n infancy.

స s, as s in sin.

ల l, as 1 in manly.

Labials.

ప p, as p in pen.

ఫ ph, the aspirate of the preceding, as ph in philosophy,

బ b, as b in number.

భ bh, as bh in abhor.

మ m, as m in demand.

వ v, as v in marvel.

The dismissed letters are the two Iris which are rarely met with in the language, the అర్థానుస్వార ardhanuswara which although a nasal is yet almost impreceptible and the second చ and జ.