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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

tōḍamōḍa (तोडमोड).—f (tōḍaṇēṃ & mōḍaṇēṃ) Breaking off and selling (as of gold and silver ornaments under pressure of debt or in times of exigency). 2 Compromising, compounding, knocking off (points and items objected to) and bringing to a settlement. 3 (Particularly.) The settlement of the grain-rent of a field. 4 Gen. in pl The secret ways and arts (of proceeding in any work); the windings and sinuosities (of a business); the turnings and twistings and complications (of an ingenious piece of mechanism); the knack or art of performance, or the trick or key of a construction or contrivance. 5 Broken or battered trinkets, metal vessels, tools, and similar articles.

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tōḍāmōḍā (तोडामोडा).—m (tōḍaṇēṃ & mōḍaṇēṃ) Breaking up and disposing (as of estates, concerns, firms, or of furniture or trinkets): dissolving or dispersing (of the constituents of a settlement or an establishment or of any long-standing disposition). v kara. 2 Breaking up, or destroying, or suffering to fall into pieces, ruin, or disorder (a building, an article, a business): also broken up, ruined, or disordered state. v kara, hō.

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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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