-ಆರು
ವ್ಯುತ್ಪತ್ತಿ ನಿಘಂಟು (Učida & Rajapurohit)
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vi.
(full) to become full suf. affix which is suffixed to numerals of (10, 100 or 1000) and denotes that the amount expressed by the numeral is felt to be many or much by the speaker, tens of (hattāru), hundreds of (nūrāru) or thousands of (sāvirāru), etc. ű ನೂರಾರು ಜನ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. Hundreds of people were present.
Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary — N. Uchida & B. B. Rajapurohit, ed. J. Takashima, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2018). CC BY-NC 4.0