Kodava

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the ethnic Coorg Community.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Dravidian language spoken in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.

Example

More examples

"The Kodava language is a Dravidian language spoken in southern Karnataka."

Etymology

Borrowed from Kodava ಕೊಡವ (koḍava).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.