Telugu
noun
Tel·u·gu
ˈte-lə-ˌgü 
plural Telugu or Telugus
1
: a member of the largest group of people in Telangana, India
2
: the Dravidian language of the Telugu people
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His response was a blitz of regional expansion – in the Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu languages – that rewired the logic of Indian television.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 May 2026
The film was released in theaters in March, achieving its biggest theatrical success of the year in South Asia, and was available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
In the southeastern Indian languages Tamil and Telugu the words for tea are tēnīr and tēnīru, respectively.
—Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Mar. 2026
And people reporting such incidents, along with video and photos, can do so in one of 42 languages, including Swahili, Amharic, Pashto, Urdu, Tamil, Hmong, Nepali, Kinyarwanda, Telugu, Somali, Tigrinya, and many others.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 May 2026
The film was released in theaters in March, achieving its biggest theatrical success of the year in South Asia, and was available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
In the southeastern Indian languages Tamil and Telugu the words for tea are tēnīr and tēnīru, respectively.
—Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Mar. 2026
And people reporting such incidents, along with video and photos, can do so in one of 42 languages, including Swahili, Amharic, Pashto, Urdu, Tamil, Hmong, Nepali, Kinyarwanda, Telugu, Somali, Tigrinya, and many others.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Telugu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Telugu. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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