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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

hummā (हुम्मा).—m ( P) A bird, probably a fabulous bird. It is represented as a bird of happy omen, and as never alighting upon the ground. It eats of its own flesh when hungry, and the mortal head which it overshadows in its flight will infallibly, in time, wear a crown. It corresponds with, and is in dictionaries set down as, Phœnix, griffin, bird of paradise &c. 2 A plume of bird's feathers as an ornament for the head of a horse: also a turā or topknot of hair.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Hummā (हुम्मा):—ind. an interjection in a Sāman, [Pañcaviṃśa-brāhmaṇa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Humma in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Starts with: Hummas, Hummasa, Hummassu, Hummasu, Hummaz.

Ends with (+9): Abhumma, Adhumma, Banti thumma, Bhumma, Buddathumma, Chumma, Cumma, Dhumma, Dividivithumma, Gabbuthumma, Ghumma, Jhammajhumma, Jhumma, Khumma, Nallathumma, Pacchabhumma, Peekethumma, Pikethumma, Piyyathumma, Sarathumma.

Full-text: Hummas.

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