Dhungada, Ḍhuṅgāḍa: 1 definition
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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryḍhuṅgāḍa (ढुंगाड).—n (Formations from ḍhuṅga implying largeness, coarseness, unsightliness &c.) The buttocks or posterious: also a buttock. Pr. tōṇḍācyā bātā ḍhuṅgāḍa khāya lātā answering to kōṇhā- cēṃ tōṇḍa cālatēṃ kōṇhācā hāta. ḍhuṅgaṇāvara apaṭaṇēṃ (To fall violently upon one's bottom. ) To be imposed upon greatly or to incur great loss through folly or mistake. ḍhuṅgaṇāsa hāta pōhañcaṇēṃ Said of a child as he is growing big and manifesting independence and unruliness.
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ḍhuṅgaḍa (ढुंगड).—n (Formations from ḍhuṅga implying largeness, coarseness, unsightliness &c.) The buttocks or posterious: also a buttock. Pr. tōṇḍācyā bātā ḍhuṅgāḍa khāya lātā answering to kōṇhā- cēṃ tōṇḍa cālatēṃ kōṇhācā hāta. ḍhuṅgaṇāvara apaṭaṇēṃ (To fall violently upon one's bottom. ) To be imposed upon greatly or to incur great loss through folly or mistake. ḍhuṅgaṇāsa hāta pōhañcaṇēṃ Said of a child as he is growing big and manifesting independence and unruliness.
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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