రేడు

ఱేడు (ṟēḍu), ఱేఁడు (ṟēn̆ḍu) (obsolete orthography)

From Proto-Dravidian *et̠-ay-ant̠u. Cognate with Tamil இறை (iṟai) and Kannada ಎರೆ (ere).

• IPA^(key): /ɾeːɖu/

రేడు • (rēḍu) m (plural రేళ్ళు)

1. king, lord, husband

   Synonyms: దొర (dora), రాయడు (rāyaḍu), రాజు (rāju), స్వామి (svāmi)

• "రేడు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1093
• రేడు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003), “Dravidians: prehistory and culture”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 7
• Burrow, T.; Emeneau, M. B. (1984), “iṟai”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 52.