say it: TEL-uu-goo
telugu is a noun meaning "a member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language
a Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu in southeastern India
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for telugu come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.