09-20-2007, 03:09 AM
Husky while my area of AP (I mean my parents villages) does not have many nose rings that I can remember, the women do wear the toe ring signifying their married status, my mom wears it, they are called "mettelu" in Telugu.
There is another point to remember, often foreign introductions (like the sweets jalebi or badshah) for example retain foreign names in native languages, this is not the case with the nose stud or ring, virtually all the languages I know of have a native word for it, "mukku pudaka" in Telugu, "mukku kuthi" in Tamil, "koka" in Punjabi and so on.
There is another point to remember, often foreign introductions (like the sweets jalebi or badshah) for example retain foreign names in native languages, this is not the case with the nose stud or ring, virtually all the languages I know of have a native word for it, "mukku pudaka" in Telugu, "mukku kuthi" in Tamil, "koka" in Punjabi and so on.