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anicut

anicut noun: a dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.

Noun

anicut (plural anicuts)

  1. (India, South) A dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.

anicut meaning in Tamil

anicut in Tamil

அணைக்கட்டு

Forms of anicut

pluralanicuts
alternative formanaicut
alternative formannicut

Origin of anicut

Borrowed from Tamil அணைக்கட்டு (aṇaikkaṭṭu, “dam for regulating the flow of an irrigation channel”), from அணை (aṇai) + கட்டு (kaṭṭu). Also compare Kannada ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು (aṇekaṭṭu) with the same construction.

Questions about anicut

What does anicut mean?
Anicut means a dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.
What is anicut in Tamil?
Anicut in Tamil is அணைக்கட்டு. See Anicut meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anicut?
Anicut is a noun.
What is the plural of anicut?
The plural of anicut is anicuts.

Words near anicut in the dictionary

  1. aniconic
  2. aniconism
  3. aniconist
  4. aniconists
  5. anicteric
  6. anicut
  7. anicuts
  8. anidex
  9. anidiomatical
  10. anidolic
  11. anidoxime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anicut (page history and authors); anicut (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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