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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

suktāsukta (सुक्तासुक्त).—a & n (Properly sūktāsūkta, having su, ukta, a, su, & ukta) A formation of a highly expressive nature and of a very large class; e. g. sadasat, śabdāśabda, vēḷāvēḷa, savyāpasavya, barā vāīṭa &c. The literal sense is Well-spoken or said, or ill-spoken or said; and the use is as per ex. majapāsūna kāṃhīṃ su0 ghaḍalēṃ tara kṣamā karāvī, i. e. If I have said anything without due consideration of its quality as proper or improper, as good or bad, pardon it; pardon my rash sayings whether passable or in whatever degree faulty; caughāmmadhyēṃ su0 bōlūṃ nayē samajūna bōlāvēṃ Speak not unadvisedly in public; speak with consideration and care; mī tyālā su0 kāṃhīṃ bōlalōṃ nāhīṃ I spake not a syllable to him good or bad. Note. As the derivation, and thus the exact and rigid signification, of this word are, to the multitude, unknown, they are, as is usual and natural, constantly violated in the current applications. The word imports, in the popular apprehension, simply Good or bad, well or ill, and, accordingly, if, of the first example given above the rendering be If I have done &c., and if, for the verb bōlaṇēṃ in the two other examples, the verb karaṇēṃ be substituted, the rendering will, in that apprehension, be equally correct, and the import, although altered, equally congruous.

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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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Full-text: Shukta, Shvada.

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