Ronthelata, Rōṇṭhēlāṭa, Roṇṭhelāṭa: 1 definition
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Ronthelata means something in Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryrōṇṭhēlāṭa (रोंठेलाट).—sometimes rōṇṭēlāṭa f (rōṇṭhā Betelnut of inferior quality, and lāṭaṇēṃ To push off, drive along &c.) A phrase originating in a certain fraudulent but foolish act of a betelnut dealer--an act by which, designing to overreach his customer, and to pass off upon him rōṇṭhā for the good betelnut which he had purchased and paid for, he outwitted himself, and forced upon him the rōṇṭhā additionally to the betelnut of good quality. Used accordingly where a man, by the very act by which he designs ruin or injury to another, ruins or injures himself; "digging a pit or spreading a snare for one's neighbor and falling into it one's self." Used also to express Waste, profusion, wild prodigality, overwhelming exuberance &c.
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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