[Tel. tel white.] adj. White, pale, pallid. Plain, evident. spastamu. tella, tellana or telladanamu n. Whiteness, paleness. telupu. tellakagitamu blank paper. tellajanalu or tellavaruwhite people, Europeans. tellabangaru pale gold. tella yerravanne light red. mogambutellanai turning pale. tellanikandlu bright eyes. tellakaki a white crow. tellakokkera a white crane. tellagadda a onion vellulli. telladalu mekamu the lion. siṃhamu. tellaborava tella-borava. n. The white Scavenger Vulture. tellatiga tella-tiga. n. A large woody climbing creeper called Dalbergia rubiginosa. Rox. iii. 231. telladivi telladivi. n. The white island, one of the sixteen divisions of the world. svetadvipamu. A. iv. 127. tellana or tellani tellana. adj. White, light coloured, pale, sallow, bright.tellanaku Same as telanaku. (q. v.) tellanara tella-nara. n. A kind of fish, a whiting. tellanidora tellani-dora. n. Lit. the white lord, i.e., Siva or Balarama. tellabaru tella-baru. v. n. To turn white.tellabarina whitish, glassy or glazed as an eye. tellabovu tella-bovu. v. n. To turn pale, to be thunderstruck. tellami or tellamu tellamu. adj. Apparent, evident, obvious, clear, spastamu, sphutamu. tellamuga clearly. tetatelallamuga as clearly as possible. tellavaru tella-varu. (tella+paru.) v. n. To dawn, udayamagu. tellavarinappudu when the day dawned. iratri yetla tellavaruna ani untimi we were in a fix, not knowing how this grief would terminate. “tellavaraganuvaccen” he came at dawn. tellavarakamundu before break of day. To turn white. tellanagu. tellavaraleste from the hour of awaking. To be ruined or lost sarahinamagu. atani pani tellavarinadi his affair has lost all colour, i.e., he is ruined. tellavarulu or tellavarlu tellavarulu. adv. Until morning. tellavaragatla tella-vara-gatla. adv. At daybreak. tellavari tella-vari. n. The dawning, morn. (A verbal noun in ra as vinakari and palukubadi.) a tellavari the following morning. tellavarincu or tellavarcu tella-varintsu. v. a. To cause the day to dawn, to watch all night. To clear up, explain, settle. atanipani tellavarincinaru they arranged his matter.