"curnum" meaning in English

See curnum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: curnums [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|te|కరణము|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu), {{bor+|en|te|కరణము}} Borrowed from Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu) Head templates: {{en-noun}} curnum (plural curnums)
  1. (India, obsolete) A village accountant or town clerk. Tags: India, obsolete Synonyms: kurnum Related terms: conicopoly
    Sense id: en-curnum-en-noun-KMd8o0nW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Indian English

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for curnum meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "te",
        "3": "కరణము",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "te",
        "3": "కరణము"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curnums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "curnum (plural curnums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A village accountant or town clerk."
      ],
      "id": "en-curnum-en-noun-KMd8o0nW",
      "links": [
        [
          "village",
          "village"
        ],
        [
          "accountant",
          "accountant"
        ],
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A village accountant or town clerk."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "conicopoly"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kurnum"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "curnum"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "te",
        "3": "కరణము",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "te",
        "3": "కరణము"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Telugu కరణము (karaṇamu).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curnums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "curnum (plural curnums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "conicopoly"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Telugu",
        "English terms derived from Telugu",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "Indian English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A village accountant or town clerk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "village",
          "village"
        ],
        [
          "accountant",
          "accountant"
        ],
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A village accountant or town clerk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kurnum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "curnum"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.