Kan: ತುಮಕೂರು tumakūru
‘Mangosteen Town’ [Tumkur] City/District, Karnataka
From Kan: tumaki/tumari/tumbari, ‘wild mangosteen tree’ [Diospyros peregrina/Diospyros embryopteris]; or tumbe/tumbi, ‘Ceylon slitwort’ [Leucas zeylanica].
The modern city is a food processing hub and has India’s first mega food park; specialising, above all, in coconuts, areca nuts and paddy.
