Used when the situation has become enormously interesting or problematic.

the default name assumed by all pilgrims who decide on going on a pilgrimage to Sabarimalai. In the period of abstinence leading to the journey, they abstain from all the habits, wear black lungis and beads, walk bare-feet, saffron on their foreheads and no one dare call them anything but sami! They also call others sami, sometimes. It really gets confusing with 2 or 3 of these guys around.

Once the pilgrimage is done, everything is reset, sins are forgiven and it's party time!

Half.
Usually the term is a prefix.
In the subcontinent and beyond if the term Semi is a stand alone utterance, it means you know what. Semi-crack.

There is an arithmetical paradox here. The paradox makes half more than half. This is how it is:

More than half of all people think that they are not semis. But each of these people who claim not to be semis calls more than half of the rest of humanity as semi. So, the net sum of semis could be anywhere between 50% to 100% making semis not semi.

That leads to this contributor's definition of 'Normal' - as consistency found in looking at the overlap upon overlap of what in isolation would be 'abnormal'.
You look perfectly normal in the stands of the cricket stadium, but once on the bar-stool you are not full no matter what and how much you fill.

1. Sneeze
2. Scene
3. Seen.
4. Sreenivas and Srinivas

Good looking gal. Beautiful. Pretty.

In Punjab this adjective is used only for women who have the following physical attributes :

1. Fair skin
2. Fair skin
3. Even more fair skin(oh ji, white skin is besht!)
4. Sharp facial features, e.g. a long pointy nose, high cheekbones
5. Good Height - must be tall (more than 5 feet 6 inches in height)
6. Good figure - must be slim-shim (less than 55 kg in weight, but more than 50kg)
7. With long, STRAIGHT black hair (curly/wavy hair not acceptable)

Now you know why they all like the highly talented and indispensable Katrina Kaif so much.

Refers to 'Saint'

Pronounced 'see-may' the also Kannada term means frontier, border, province,land, foreign-land, overseas etc. basically pointing to geographical space. Comes from the
Sanskrit(and Hindi) term 'seema'.

Seeme is most frequently used as a prefix in Kannada to usually denote things foreign.

bull shit, cow shit, buffalo shit and shit of other bigger vegetarian(not necessarily) mammals like Elephant etc.

That dark green color thing that you step on while walking on the road and wipe it off your chappals on the footpath stone etc.

Cow saani is used for auspicious purposes like mixing it with water and washing house entrance. Also dry saani is burnt for manufacturing the holy vibhoothi

Also kosu baththis like Tortoise are made from saani.

The grave tome of mathematics that all school boys and girls pale at, known by its author rather than by its title, O P Malhotra, is designed to set 40 "sums" as homework. So about 5 exemplar "sums" are worked out at the beginning of the chapter, and 50 more are set as exercises. No maths teacher worth her/his salt will deviate from this subliminal suggestion by the math-god, (who labels all his triangles OPM, after himself!)

for no real reason

SNM is an acronym for Software Nana Maga. Used by locals in certian parts of Bangalore who resent the affluence of Software Professionals and their high spending habits.

Someone being too smart.

Zero (in kannada), a not-so-popular number on a duffers marks card]

applies to someone who is showing off.

A naughty yet clever or "smart fellow". Usually used by women to describe a man that's a flirt and likes to charm the women with his charming words but doesn't have much else to offer.

loose term for face cream that supposedly make you "fairer". It was common to use powder on top of the snow (both genders) to add to the macau-like fairness. perhaps "snow" was a brandname once upon a time.

Very

(Note can also be an adverb)

The word that our Anglo Saxon counterparts invented and proudly included in the oxford dictionary simply to mean "creating a ruckus". We locals however have modified the word to be able to fit it in.. well.. anywhere

slang for samosas. usually used around super greasy, onion and pea filled mozi samosas sold at tea shops around auto stands.

Steamed rice dumpling fermented with yeast or with toddy eaten generally with sorpotel

Literally means "Saturn." In Hindu mythology, Shani is known as the greatest trouble giver as well as the greatest well wisher. He is depicted dark in colour, clothed in black; holding a sword, arrows and two daggers and variously mounted on a black crow. To call someone Shani however is to call them the bearer of bad luck/destructive tendencies.