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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

ghaṭapaṭa (घटपट).—f ghaṭampaṭaṃ n (Fanciful formations.) Terms for high-sounding, blustering, or vaunting talk; irrelevant and evasive speech; pretences or deceptive excuses; rant, rhapsody, rodomontade, rigmarole. 2 Applied also, in the lawlessness of Indian poets, to the operations (in declining, conjugating, classifying, discriminating &c.) of grammarians, logicians &c.; poets affecting to view these labors as fuss, bustle, pother, and empty ado. Ex. nalagē vyākaraṇācī nyāyācī ghaṭapaṭādi khaṭapaṭa tī || vaikuṇṭhapēṇṭha mōṭhī || nāṃvāvari hīnadīna khaṭapaṭati ||. (A bright and pure sentiment!)

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ghātapāta (घातपात).—m (S ghāta Killing, pāta Falling.) A comprehensive phrase for killing, maiming, injuring, ruining: also for loss, hurt, damage, detriment. Ex. tyā vāṭēnēṃ jātōsa sambhāḷūna jā ghā0 hōīla Go warily along that road: some or other evil accident will befal thee.

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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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Starts with: Ghatapatadhyaya, Ghatapatadi-khatapata.

Full-text: Ghatapati.

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