Meaning of દંતકથા in English

A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.
Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.
An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
To tell or narrate, as a legend.
Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.
A ledger.
Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.
Light; slender; slim; trivial.
The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.
A magician.
A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
To study, or make critical comments on, language.
A philologist.