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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

khurakhura (खुरखुर).—f khurakhurā m khurakhurī f (Imit.) Fretting and pining (as under protracted hope); anxious longing after; agitation and distress (as upon some great loss). 2 Hurriedness, eagerness, impatience; an itching or a longing.

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

khurakhura (खुरखुर).—

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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: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Khurakhura (खुरखुर).—(°-) or khurukh° or °rā-, or kharukh°, kharukhar°, onomatopoetic (Sanskrit has khurukhurāyate, makes a rattling noise in the throat; see next; compare also Sanskrit ghuru- ghurā-, Pali ghurughuru-, and ghurughurāyati snores; the next is evidently a var. of this), imitation of a hoarse or [Page206-a+ 71] rattling sound made in the throat, characteristic of an old man: Mahāvyutpatti 4092 kharukharāvasaktakaṇṭhaḥ (so Miro- nov; v.l. in Kyoto ed. khurukharā°), = Tibetan ṅar ṅar po, hoarse, husky; the same [compound], in same context, Lalitavistara 188.2, all mss. but A khurukhurāv°; A kharukhurov°; Calcutta (see LV.) khurakhurāv°; (Lefm. kharakharāv°;) Tibetan as for Mahāvyutpatti. Is the form beginning khar° influenced by reminiscence of khara, harsh?

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

Khurakhura (खुरखुर):—mf. rattling (in the throat), [Lalita-vistara xiv, 34.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Khurakhura 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: Khurakhuranem, Khurakhurasvara, Khurakhurata, Khurakhuray, Khurakhurayate.

Full-text: Khurukhuraya, Khurakhurasvara, Khurakhurata.

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