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Marathi

[muh-rah-tee, -rat-ee]

noun

  1. an Indic language of western and central India: the principal language of the state of Maharashtra.



Marathi

/ əˈɑːɪ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Maharashtra state in India, its people, or their language

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the state language of Maharashtra, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Marathi1

First recorded in 1820–30
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Example Sentences

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The big studios don't pick-up Marathi projects without an "obvious commercial appeal", which means an ecosystem supportive of experimental artistic voices is sorely lacking, she adds.

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The city police told BBC Marathi that the actor was injured after a scuffle broke out between him and an unidentified man who entered his house sometime after midnight.

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The Illustrated Weekly of India promised readers exclusive photographs of Mumtaz Begum, while the police planned to issue a daily bulletin to the press, Marathi newspaper Navakal reported.

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She studied Sanskrit, but her research in University of Chicago spanned Indian and European languages - French, German, Marathi, and Hindi - and touched on linguistics, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

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In All We Imagine As Light, a film made in the Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam languages, three migrant women in Mumbai navigate empathy, resilience and human connection.

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does Marathi mean?

Marathi is a language spoken mainly in Maharashtra, a state in the Republic of India, a southern Asian country.Marathi is a member of the Indic family of languages, which includes languages spoken in Northern India, such as Hindi and Bengali.Marathi is the state language of Maharashtra, a central-western Indian state. Nearly all of the world’s speakers of Marathi live in Maharashtra and its neighboring states or are Maharashtrian immigrants who moved elsewhere, such as to the island of Mauritius.

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