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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

ghaḍamōḍa (घडमोड).—f (ghaḍaṇēṃ & mōḍaṇēṃ) Making and destroying (pots, trinkets &c.) 2 fig. Receiving and issuing; buying and selling; borrowing and lending; business, dealing, trade, traffic. 3 Changing, shifting, setting up and pulling down (of public officers &c.) 4 The composition, construction, make (as of a piece of machinery): the intricacies, complexities, windings (of a business): the involution (of a stanza or passage): the intrigues (of a drama or plot): the complications and combinations (of a poet): also the art, trick, knack, key, skill (of putting together, of managing, of explaining &c.) īśvarācī or brahmadēvācī gha0 The raisings up and castings down of Providence; great vicissitudes or fluctuations gen. in human or mundane affairs.

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ghaḍāmōḍa (घडामोड).—f Derived and applied as ghaḍamōḍa

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

ghaḍamōḍa (घडमोड).—f Making and destroying. Chang- ing, shifting, setting up and pulling down. Buying and selling.

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ghaḍāmōḍa (घडामोड).—See ghaḍamōḍa.

context information

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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Ghadamodanem.

Full-text: Ghadamodanem, Istamela.

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