Aphata, Aphāṭa: 3 definitions

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Aphata means something in Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

aphāṭa (अफाट).—a Immoderately spacious or extensive--a place, a desert, a lake, a building, affairs. 2 Vast, huge, immense--a building. 3 Used freely in such combinations as aphāṭabuddhi, aphāṭaparākrama- sāmarthya-kalpanā-sampatti &c. in the sense of Mighty, astonishing, exceeding, superlative. Used in poetry of any thing exorbitant, extravagant, enormous, extraordinary &c., as jaisā kāṃ aphāṭa samīra ||

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āphata (आफत).—f ( A) A calamity, affliction, misfortune. v paḍa, yē, gudara.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

aphāṭa (अफाट).—a Spacious, extensive, vast, huge. Mighty, astonishing, superlative (as -būddhi-parākrama).

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āphata (आफत).—f Calamity. āphata āsmānī f A calamity visited from heaven; as distinguished from āphata sulatānī In- fliction of injury by rulers.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Āphata (आफत):—(nf) distress, trouble; [āyegī aura bhugatanī paḍegī] there will be the device (devil) to pay; —[uṭhānā] to create havoc; —[kā ṭukaḍā/parakālā] a dare devil, a sharp astute fellow; —[kā mārā] distress-stricken; —[ḍhānā] to work havoc; —[macānā] to make excessive haste; to create havoc; —[mola lenā,—sira para lenā] to ask for trouble; to invite trouble, to own unnecessary botheration.

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