Marathi
an Indic language of western and central India: the principal language of the state of Maharashtra.
Origin of Marathi
1- Also Mahratti.
Words Nearby Marathi
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How to use Marathi in a sentence
In the mid-60s, the Shiv Sena spoke of the erosion of Marathi.
Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill | Dilip D’Souza | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHere the Sanskrit words amount to four-fifths in the Marathi dictionaries.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon LathamThe genitive plural is not used as a dative plural in Marathi, but it is the basis of the plural general oblique case.
Before dealing with these, it will be convenient to give the modern Marathi synthetic declension of the commoner forms of nouns.
The only original Prakrit tenses which have survived in Marathi are the present and the imperative.
It is derived from the Apabhrarṁśa form uṭṭhiu, to which the dative suffix n (old Marathi ni, niyẫ) has been added.
British Dictionary definitions for Marathi
Mahratti
/ (məˈrɑːtɪ) /
of or relating to Maharashtra state in India, its people, or their language
the state language of Maharashtra, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
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