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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

lāgaṇēṃ (लागणें).—v i (laga S To be near or with. This verb is, of all the verbs in the Maraṭhi language, the most extensively and variously applied. The meaning is but one, and, by one general definition therefore, it may substantially be expressed; but it is a multifarious meaning; and, as such, that it may be discerned through the multiplicity of its respects and relations, it must also be exhibited in particular uses, and elucidated and established by familiar examples.) To come or arise unto; to come into contact, connection, or correspondence with; to have suitableness, agreeableness, or harmonious relation; to meet, befal, betide; to touch, hit, reach, stick to, refer to, bear on; to fit, suit, sit with, apply to. See the subjoined senses and illustrations. 1 To touch. Ex. tū tyālā lāgūṃ nakō viṭāḷa hōīla. 2 To be planted, set, inserted;--as plants or graffs: also to be planted or set with--ground; as vāphā lāga- lā, aḷēṃ lāgalēṃ, sarī lāgalī. 3 To take root or seat; to be fixed congenially and vitally;--as plants set, cions engraffed. 4 To hit, strike, light on; to come in contact with hurtfully or sensibly--a weapon &c.: to touch, figuratively; to affect or take effect upon; to come home unto;--as abuse, reproof. Pr. bōlēla lēṅkī lāgēla sunē. 5 To close or shut; to fall together or to;--as doors or shutters, covers or lids, eyelids or eyes. 6 To be duly joined to or with, lit. fig;--as pieces, parts, verses, words. 7 To suit; to be adapted or accommodate to. 8 To get on foot or into vogue;--as fashions or ways. 9 To be contracted by; to fix itself unto;--as a vice, trick, ill habit: also to be caught by; to happen unto;--a disease or an ailment. 10 To arise upon or in and form an affection of;--as hunger, thirst, hiccough, panting, trembling &c. 11 To arise and proceed; to take commencement or origin and continue;--as bodies in space, events in time, any particular quality or quantity. Ex. ēthūna māvaḷa sampalēṃ āṇi dēśa lāgalā; tēthūna puḍhēṃ bharavastīcē gāṃva lāgatīla; hyā adhyāyāpāsūna grantha kaṭhīṇa lāgalā; tavhāmpāsūna hyācā tyācā kalaha lāgalā; hēṃ kāya śahara lāgalēṃ āhē; hēṃ kāya sōpēṃ lāgalēṃ āhē. 12 To appear, as to its quality, unto the senses or mind of; to be perceived or apprehended by as of some particular nature, or as subsisting in some particular manner. Ex. āmbē khāūna pahā gōḍa lāgalē tara ghyā; tyālā barī gōṣṭa jarīṃ sāṅgitalī tarīṃ vāīṭa lāgatī. 13 To be found or got by;--as service, employment. 14 To be related or connected generally. Ex. tujhā tō kāya mēhuṇā lāgatō. 15 To meet, fall in the way of, come before. Ex. vāṭēnēṃ cāra nadyā lāgatāta; tumhī vācīta jā āṇi puḍhēṃ vṛttaślōka lāgēla tēthēṃ ṭhēvā. 16 To bear;--as fruit-trees: also to arise upon; to be borne or produced;--fruit. Ex. tyā prāntacē māḍa asē lāgatāta kīṃ ēkā ēkā māḍāvara hajāra hajāra nāraḷa lāgatāta. 17 To be corrupted, tainted, corroded, dirtied; to be affected with a blemish or damage;--a thing in general. 18 To stick or adhere to. 19 To bite or sting;--as snakes, scorpions, pungent substances. 20 To fall upon;--blight or mildew: also to be affected with blight;--a plant. 21 To act or take effect upon; to operate or work upon hurtfully or disagreeably;--as intoxieating or narcotic substances, bad air or water, fasting, angry imprecations &c. 22 To be affected with some one of the disorders incidental and usual;--esp. a horned beast. 23 To enter into and form the substance of; to be duly concocted and assimilated;--said of food. 24 To be expended or consumed in or upon;--as money, materials, time. 25 To be required or wanted; to be necessary to the well-being or perfect state of;--a thing in general: also to arise unto;--a want, need, occasion for. 26 To be duly pitched;--the throat or voice, a musical instrument or its tone: also to be set or tuned. 27 To be kindled;--a light or fire: also to be on fire;--as a house or thing. 28 To begin indeed; to enter into full activity or being; to be advanced to the stage at which the main or principal ceremony is under performance;--as a wedding or thread investiture. 29 To stutter, falter, hesitate. In this sense the person, his tongue, or his words may, any one, become the subject of the verb. 30 To begin to work; to get into action or motion;--as an engine, a machine. 31 To work on, in, at; to act in its peculiar manner on its proper subject. Ex. jaṅga caḍhalā āhē mhaṇūna cākū cāṅgalā lāgata nāhīṃ. 32 To be whetted or sharpened. Ex. dōna cākū lāgalē āhēta bākīcē lāvāyācē āhēta. 33 To be fixed or settled upon; to be attached to inseparably or closely. Ex. upajalyā prāṇyāsa maraṇa hēṃ lāgalēñca āhē; saṃsārācēṃ kṛtya hēṃ rōja lāgalēñca āhē. 34 To be applied unto; to be occupied or engaged in. 35 To set in; to take place for continuance;--as rain, cold, heat. 36 To have the intended or natural effect; to answer, take, succeed. 37 To bear upon; to gall, pinch, rub;--as a load, the saddle, the back of a beast: also to receive or sustain galling or abrasion;--the back. 38 To be joined with the female in sexual congress;--used of birds and beasts, and, revilingly, of man. 39 To appertain to; to be the concern, province, proper office or business of. 40 To be arrived at the proper state or stage;--as a she-animal that has begun to yield milk, a tree that has begun to bear fruit. 41 To be; to have some certain condition, quality, or accident. Ex. mī kā śrīmanta lāgalōṃ āhēṃ sarvāṃsa śālajōḍyā dyā mhaṇatāṃ tō; mī kāya kōṭhyadhīśa lāgalōṃ āhēṃ; hā kāya musalamāna lāgalā. 42 To be fixed upon or attached to;--an act as criminal &c. upon or to a person as the perpetrator, or a duty or work upon a person to execute it. 43 To be incumbent or obligatory upon; to be necessary to be done or suffered by. Ex. hyācē hātūna na jhālēṃ tara tumhāsa jāvēṃ lāgēla; hā paḷūna gēlā tara rupayē tumhālā dyāvayāsa lāgatīla. 44 (In conjunction with a verb having the termination ūṃ or āvayāsa) To begin; to begin to do or to be; to act upon or to take place. Ex. tō mārūṃ lāgalā; dēūṃ -ghēūṃ -khāūṃ -bōlūṃ -basāvayāsa -karāvayāsa -&c. lāgalā; yuddha hōūṃ lāgalēṃ; divasa lāmba hōūṃ or vhāvayāsa lāgalē. 45 śaucāsa lāgaṇēṃ, mutāyāsa lāgaṇēṃ &c. in con. To get the desire to stool or to make water. 46 To be with or on the side of helpfully; to set one's self unto or towards. Ex. hēṃ ōjhēṃ malā utarūṃ lāga; hēṃ kāma malā karūṃ lāga. 47 To come to anchor; to come to. 48 To come to a stand still; to be confuted, posed, non-plussed. lāgalā jāṇēṃ with lā or sa of o. To become indebted or bounden unto; as tvāṃ malā dōna paisē dilhēsa mhaṇūna mī kā tulā lāgalā gēlōṃ? 2 To be in close intimacy with. lāgūna asaṇēṃ To be closely engaged upon, about, at, with, in. lāgūna jāṇēṃ To leave her husband and dwell with another;--said of a wife.

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

lāgaṇēṃ (लागणें).—v i Come or arise to. Touch. Bear. Be contracted by. Begin. Shut. Be related. Meet. Set in. Strike. Be kindled. Be. Suit. lāgūna asaṇēṃ Be closely engaged upon, at, in &c.

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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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Ends with: Adhi-balaganem, Alaganem, Balaganem, Bapa Houm Laganem, Bilaganem, Hilaganem, Jalaganem, Kacchapim-laganem, Kasala-laganem, Kashyapim Laganem, Mum Laganem, Shilaganem, Ulaganem, Valaganem.

Full-text (+184): Jhirapanem, Jhiranem, Halada, Paropakara, Padaca, Gairavilhaisa, Unavara, Jivhali, Vilha, Piccha, Kashyapim Laganem, Kasala-laganem, Mum Laganem, Kacchapim-laganem, Lagubhagu, Jamina, Lagavala, Langora, Lage, Rashi.

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