Jhadakhanda, Jhāḍakhaṇḍa: 2 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

jhāḍakhaṇḍa (झाडखंड).—n Woods; woodiness or bushiness; boscage: also a wood, or a thicket of scrub, low trees, and bushes.

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jhāḍakhaṇḍā (झाडखंडा).—a & ad (Like a tree deformed with gaps and blanks and vacancies; and contrad. from jhāḍa ubhēṃ karaṇēṃ, chata bāndhaṇēṃ or bharaṇēṃ &c. q. v.) Consisting of breaks and pauses and jarring intermissions, i. e. inharmoniously discontinuous and disgustingly meagre and jejune--a character of vocal or instrumental performance, or of reciting, reading, speaking. Hence understood by many in the sense of Rudely native; unacquired by lessons from any professor or practitioner. Ex. tyācā bāṇā or bāṇī-gāṇēṃ-vājaviṇēṃ-mhaṇaṇēṃ jhā0 āhē.

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

jhāḍakhaṇḍa (झाडखंड).—n Woods; woodiness or bushiness.

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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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