Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The principal Indic language of Maharashtra.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The language of the Mahrattas. Also written
Mahratti . SeeMahratta .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Language spoken in the state of
Maharashtra ,India . - proper noun The
people of this state. - adjective Pertaining to
Maharashtra or its language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Phanas mala pharach avdiche fruit ahe .. pan mee kadee kadbole try nay keli (I hope my Marathi is atleast 1% correct).
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With the same batter you can even make pancakes in Marathi they are called Dhirda.
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I offered to make the cabbage bhaaji. as I was pouring oil for the seasoning she said Pure pure (enough in Marathi) ...
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With the same batter you can even make pancakes in Marathi they are called Dhirda.
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Now in Marathi I learnt to call it PoLi much later but as a kid it was chapati so that is what it is.
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If you like the taste of "Adhmoora dahi" which means just set curd in Marathi, then you will love this.
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If you like the taste of "Adhmoora dahi" which means just set curd in Marathi, then you will love this.
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The name is in Marathi and sounds like hailing a mughal entering the court like, "Ba mulayza, shajahan, malik e mulk, bashah ..."
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Now in Marathi I learnt to call it PoLi much later but as a kid it was chapati so that is what it is.
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I offered to make the cabbage bhaaji. as I was pouring oil for the seasoning she said Pure pure (enough in Marathi) ...
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