మెంతులు
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Telugu
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Fenugrec.jpg/220px-Fenugrec.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Dravidian *mentti + -లు (-lu). Compare Kannada ಮೆಂತೆ (mente), Tulu ಮೆತ್ತೆ (mette), Tamil வெந்தயம் (ventayam), Sanskrit मेथिका (methikā).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]మెంతులు • (mentulu) ? (plural only)
- the fenugreek seeds of Trigonella foenum-graecum.
References
[edit]- Brown-1903, Gwynn (2022) “మెంతి,+మెంతులు”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Telugu Dictionaries]