English words that Originated from Telugu

Here is a list of words that have originated from Telugu

metad	a small field rat (Millardia meltada)	Telugu dialect mettād
metad rat	a small field rat (Millardia meltada)	Telugu dialect mettād
bandaka	okra	Kanarese beṇḍe-kāyi or Telugu beṇḍa-kāya
Nagari	devanagari	Sanskrit nāgarī, literally, (writing) of the city, from nagara city, of Dravidian origin; akin to Tamil nakar dwelling, city, Telugu nagaru palace
bandakka	okra	Kanarese beṇḍe-kāyi or Telugu beṇḍa-kāya
bandicoot	any of several very large rats (genera Bandicota and Nesokia) of southern Asia destructive to crops	Telugu pandikokku
bockadam	an aquatic, mildly venomous snake (Cerberus rynchops synonym Hurria rynchops) native to India, southeastern Asia, and northern Australia	borrowed from Telugu bukkaḍamu “eel, water snake”            Note:     The word initially appears as a name for the snake in the phrase “karoo bokadam,” in Patrick Russell, An Account of Indian Serpents Collected on the Coast of Coromandel (London, 1796), plate 17 (“karoo” is presumably Telugu kāru, “black,” perhaps referring to its black markings). The form in the etymology herein is from Charles Philip Brown, A Telugu-English Dictionary (on-line version at “Digital Dictionaries of South Asia”). Brown gives the variant burudabukkaḍamu, probably for buradabukkaḍamu, literally, “mud bockadam.” “Burada bukkadam” is given as a Telugu equivalent for “water snake” in T.J. Maltby, The Ganjam District Manual (Madras, 1882), p. 271. The nomenclatural history of Cerberus rynchops and allied species has been complicated; for a recent analysis with references see John C. Murphy, et al., “The dog-faced water snakes, a revision of the genus Cerberus Cuvier, (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species,” Zootaxa, No. 3484 (2012), pp.1–34.
bockadams	an aquatic, mildly venomous snake (Cerberus rynchops synonym Hurria rynchops) native to India, southeastern Asia, and northern Australia	borrowed from Telugu bukkaḍamu “eel, water snake”            Note:     The word initially appears as a name for the snake in the phrase “karoo bokadam,” in Patrick Russell, An Account of Indian Serpents Collected on the Coast of Coromandel (London, 1796), plate 17 (“karoo” is presumably Telugu kāru, “black,” perhaps referring to its black markings). The form in the etymology herein is from Charles Philip Brown, A Telugu-English Dictionary (on-line version at “Digital Dictionaries of South Asia”). Brown gives the variant burudabukkaḍamu, probably for buradabukkaḍamu, literally, “mud bockadam.” “Burada bukkadam” is given as a Telugu equivalent for “water snake” in T.J. Maltby, The Ganjam District Manual (Madras, 1882), p. 271. The nomenclatural history of Cerberus rynchops and allied species has been complicated; for a recent analysis with references see John C. Murphy, et al., “The dog-faced water snakes, a revision of the genus Cerberus Cuvier, (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species,” Zootaxa, No. 3484 (2012), pp.1–34.
bokadam	an aquatic, mildly venomous snake (Cerberus rynchops synonym Hurria rynchops) native to India, southeastern Asia, and northern Australia	borrowed from Telugu bukkaḍamu “eel, water snake”            Note:     The word initially appears as a name for the snake in the phrase “karoo bokadam,” in Patrick Russell, An Account of Indian Serpents Collected on the Coast of Coromandel (London, 1796), plate 17 (“karoo” is presumably Telugu kāru, “black,” perhaps referring to its black markings). The form in the etymology herein is from Charles Philip Brown, A Telugu-English Dictionary (on-line version at “Digital Dictionaries of South Asia”). Brown gives the variant burudabukkaḍamu, probably for buradabukkaḍamu, literally, “mud bockadam.” “Burada bukkadam” is given as a Telugu equivalent for “water snake” in T.J. Maltby, The Ganjam District Manual (Madras, 1882), p. 271. The nomenclatural history of Cerberus rynchops and allied species has been complicated; for a recent analysis with references see John C. Murphy, et al., “The dog-faced water snakes, a revision of the genus Cerberus Cuvier, (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species,” Zootaxa, No. 3484 (2012), pp.1–34.
bokadams	an aquatic, mildly venomous snake (Cerberus rynchops synonym Hurria rynchops) native to India, southeastern Asia, and northern Australia	borrowed from Telugu bukkaḍamu “eel, water snake”            Note:     The word initially appears as a name for the snake in the phrase “karoo bokadam,” in Patrick Russell, An Account of Indian Serpents Collected on the Coast of Coromandel (London, 1796), plate 17 (“karoo” is presumably Telugu kāru, “black,” perhaps referring to its black markings). The form in the etymology herein is from Charles Philip Brown, A Telugu-English Dictionary (on-line version at “Digital Dictionaries of South Asia”). Brown gives the variant burudabukkaḍamu, probably for buradabukkaḍamu, literally, “mud bockadam.” “Burada bukkadam” is given as a Telugu equivalent for “water snake” in T.J. Maltby, The Ganjam District Manual (Madras, 1882), p. 271. The nomenclatural history of Cerberus rynchops and allied species has been complicated; for a recent analysis with references see John C. Murphy, et al., “The dog-faced water snakes, a revision of the genus Cerberus Cuvier, (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species,” Zootaxa, No. 3484 (2012), pp.1–34.
cumbu	pearl millet sense 1	Kaunada & Telugu kambu or Tamil kampu
bottu	an ornamental or sectarian mark (such as a dot on the forehead)	Kanarese-Telugu boṭṭu
caló	any of several Spanish argots	borrowed from Spanish, argot, speech of the Spanish Roma," borrowed from Iberian Romani kalo "speech of the Roma, black," going back to Old Indo-Aryan *kāla- "black, dark" (whence Sanskrit kālaḥ "black, dark blue"), borrowed from a Dravidian source akin to Kannada kāḷ "blackness," kaḍu "blackness, black," Telugu karu "black""
bungarum	one of several venomous snakes of the genus Bungarus	modification of Telugu baṅgāru
Poligar	a subordinate feudal chief in the former Madras Presidency of India	Marathi & Telugu; Marathi pāḷegār, from Telugu pāḷegāḍu or Kanarese pāḷeyagāṟa
ghedda wax	beeswax from Indian and African bees	probably from Telugu geḍḍa lump
pitta	a large genus (the type of the family Pittidae) of chiefly terrestrial nearly songless birds that are found principally in the southern part of Asia and in Australia and adjacent islands and that have short wings and tail, long legs, a stout bill, and brilliant plumage marked by sharply contrasting colors	New Latin, from Telugu piṭṭa bird
dhoni	a fishing or coastwise trading boat of India	Hindi ḍonī, Marathi ḍoṇī, Kanarese dōṇi, ḍōṇi, & Telugu dōne, from Sanskrit droṇī trough, tub, from dru wood, tree
Telinga	sepoy	of Dravidian origin; akin to Tamil teliṅkam Telugu country; from the employment of Telugus as sepoys
Telugu	a member of the largest group of people in Telangana, India	Telugu telũgu, tenũngu
Telugus	a member of the largest group of people in Telangana, India	Telugu telũgu, tenũngu