[Skt.] n. A village. uru. A scale in music. sadjadisvaramu. gramatrayamu the three tones, treble, tenor and base. A crowd or multitude samuhamu. as gunagramamu orsabdagramamu. gramakaryamu grama-karyamu. n. Village affairs: worldly matters. gramakanthamu grama-kanthamu. n. The glebe, or pasture land appertaining to a village. gramani gramani. n. A chief: a head man. gramadhipati. gramani adj. Chief, head, leading. mukhyudu naragramani, the noblest of men. durgramani a wicked ruler. gramanyamu gramanyamu. n. The rule or headship of a town. Imperiousness, violence, outrage. gramanyamuga scoffingly. gramadevata grama-devata. n. A village god or goddess. These are the original Dravidian deities. Among them the male deities are chiefly these: poturaju, katredu, ankalu, gangaya, cennadu and mailaru. The principal village goddesses are peddamma, katreni, ankalamma, ekkalamma, ellamma, mallamma, mamillamma, maisamma ormaisuramma, (i. e. mahisi.) mariyamma, maremma (who probably is meant for “Maria”) yagatamma (that is, Saint Agatha,) and sunkalamma or sunkelamma, of whom one inflicts the cholera, another the small pox (see ammavaru) another murrain, another blight. None have any beneficent powers, and they are worshipped to avert their displeasure. gramasiṃhamu grama-simhamu. n. The lion of the village, i.e., a dog. gramasthudu grama-sthudu. n. A villager. svagramasthudu a fellow citizen or neighbour. gramantamu gram-antamu. n. The outlying portion of a village, i.e. the Panchama quarter.malapalle. gramadulu gram-adulu. n. Villages. Lit. Villages, &c. gramyamu gramyamu. adj. Village-born; produced in or relating to a village. Vulgar, rude, rustic. Common, colloquial, unclassical, inelegant: The opposite of sastriyamu. In Grammar the term is applied to conversational forms as vastadu, testadu, like they’re, I’m, you’re, he’s, in English, which are supposed to be in admissible in literature, though they occur in all even the best poets. gramyadharmamu gramya-dharmamu. n. Sexual intercourse. sambhogamu. Lit. what is usual or the fashion, or way of the world.