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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

basaṇēṃ (बसणें).—v i (vasana S) To sit; to rest upon the buttocks, the knees, or the hams and heels. 2 To sit down; to perch; to roost; to rest as a beast or a bird. 3 To be without employment, occupation, or specific business: also to sit idling or dawdling. 4 To stand upon a pedestal. 5 To lie upon, lit. fig., and with amplitude of application. Ex. aṅgā- vara dhuḷa basalī; ammala prajāṃvara basalā; pēṭīsa paṭṭī basalī; raṅga basalā; mulāmmā-kalhaī-khaḷa-maḷa-basalā. 6 To rest as a weight or burden, esp. in figurative senses. 7 To settle, subside, sink to the bottom: also to sink, abate, go down;--as the water of a river or well. 8 To become blunt--an edge. 9 To settle in any course or state; to set in;--as rain, heat, fever. 10 To sink, retire, lose height or prominence. 11 To become expert or capable by use or practice; to get in--the hand or other member, a faculty, or the understanding. 12 To come upon, arise unto, fall on, in figurative senses; as māra basalā; kharca basalā; tōṭā basalā. 13 To fit; to be accommodated or adapted unto; to sit, suit, apply, answer, agree, tally--joints, junctures, devices, contrivances, calculations. 14 To fall; to be ruined--a trader or his business. 15 To become hoarse, or low and inaudible--the voice or kaṇṭha, gaḷā, ghasā, āvāja. 16 To be established or set up--a rule or sway. 17 To acquire fullness and strength--a crop: also to settle down as irrecoverably gone. basūṃ jāṇē tyālā uṭha kōṇa mhaṇē (Him who knows where and how to sit who will bid to rise?) Who will stop or scold him who is doing a thing rightly?

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basaṇēṃ (बसणें).—n Anything spread or placed to sit on.

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

basaṇēṃ (बसणें).—v i To sit. To sit idling. To lie upon. To rest as a weight or burden. To settle, subside. To become blunt an edge. To settle in any course. To sink, lose height. To become expert, to get in. To fall on. To fit. To fall; to be ruined. To become hoarse, or low and inaudible. To be established-a rule or sway. basūṃ jāṇēṃ tyālā ūṭha kōṇa mhaṇē Who will stop or scold him who is doing a thing rightly ?

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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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Ends with: Ambarinta Basanem, Eka-naventa-basanem, Kakro Mhanuna Basanem, Kanathali-basanem, Katasana-ghaluna-basanem, Khapata-basanem, Khiparim Basanem, Mekha Basanem, Mekhatisa-basanem, Timbasanem.

Full-text (+154): Cau, Curamuranem, Bagoti, Tukatuka, Meta, Ambarinta Basanem, Ambari, Khapata-basanem, Tipa, Masi, Kanathali-basanem, Mekhatisa-basanem, Kakro Mhanuna Basanem, Basavi, Bokandi, Ujedatam, Raktaci Ana, Rashi, Eka-naventa-basanem, Kanenkoncem.

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