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Marathi

Marathi \Ma*ra"thi\, Mahratta \Mah*rat"ta\, prop. n. 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.

Marathi

Mahrati \Mah*rat"i\, n. The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan. [Written also Marathi.]

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Marathi

Marathi may refer to:

  • Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnic group of Maharashtra, India
  • Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
  • Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece

Usage examples of "marathi".

Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.

When they fell silent, unable to name a tree, the seer supplied its name, reeling off a succession of alternatives in Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.

India he laboured indefatigably at the vernaculars, and his reward was an astonishingly rapid proficiency in Gujarati, Marathi, Hindustani, as well as Persian and Arabic.

Rama and Lakshman had sat in the shade of these very trees, eating their fill of the chewy, gumlike fruit, carrying the rest back to Susama-daiimaa, who cooked a delicious sweet-sour phanas curry in the Marathi style.

What do I have to do to…' And then something else takes over, because I realize I don't have to ask her, I can just get inside that freckled mouth‑metalled head and find out, for once I can really get to know what's going on… and in I go, still bicycling, but the front of her mind is all full up with Marathi language‑marchers, there are American pop songs stuck in the corners of her thoughts, but nothing I'm interested in.