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acci (Tm): Nakarattar married woman.

accimar panam (Tm): accounting category for funds invested or deposited in a Nakarattar firm by a proprietor's in-laws in conformity with a dowry agreement at the time of his marriage. The funds are usually held in trust for educational or dowry expenses of the proprietor's daughter.

adathi (Tm): elite "parent" banker.

adathi kadai panam (Tm): accounting category for deposits from Nakarattar

adathis ; also simply adathi panam .

adhaya (Sk): credit or income entry in an account (cf. varavu ).

adrstartha (Sk): invisible, extramundane goal of action.

aduthal (Tm): subordinate staff in a large Nakarattar banking agency; literally, "next people" (i.e., next after the first assistant [mudalal ] to a Nakarattar agent [melal ]).

agraharam (Sk): Brahman village, neighborhood, or street.

ainthugai (reportedly): a Nakarattar general ledger.

Aippaci (Tm): October–November.

amman (Tm): goddess.

ampalakkarar (Tm): 1. one who holds an ampalam ; thus, a village headman. 2. a Kallar subcaste living near Melur, east of Madurai.

ampalam (Tm): a share in village resources held by a dominant family in a village.

Ani (Tm): June–July.

anna (Ur): one-sixteenth of a rupee.

anpu (Tm): love, devotion.

anuloma (Sk): in an unnatural order; as applied to marriage, an intercaste marriage in which the husband is member of a higher-ranking caste than the wife (cf. pratiloma ).

arai (Tm): 1. room. 2. Nakarattar bank office (cf. kitangi ).

Arapattayankal (Tm): name of Nakarattar six deeds of gift and two additional documents, ca. 1600–1800, stored at Palani Temple; literally, "six deeds."

arccanai (Sk): offering of flowers, betel, and saffron, accompanied by recitation of the sacred names of the deity, on behalf of the donor.

arrack (Ar): palm wine.

arze (Ur): petition.

asti vari (Tm): temple tithe on wealthy people.

atati (Tm). See adathi .

atati katai panam (Tm). See adathi kadai panam .

Ati (Tm): July–August.

atinnam (Sk): Saivite seminary or monastery (synonym: matam ).

atuttal (Tm). See aduthal .

Avani (Tm): August–September.

avi (Tm): spirit of the dead.

Ayyanar (Tm): village guardian god.