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‖ Mahratti|məˈrætɪ|
Also 7 moratty, 9– marathi, -ee, murathee.
[Hindī Marhaṭṭī, f. Marhaṭṭa: see prec.]
The language of the Mahrattas. Also attrib.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 174 They tell their Tale in Moratty. 1827R. Nesbit in Mem. iii. (1858) 82, I attended the Marathi worship... I performed worship with the servants in Marathi. 1831J. T. Molesworth (title) A Dictionary Murathee and English. 1868Bellairs & Lakshman (title) A Grammar of the Marathi Language. 1875,1880[see Kanarese a. and n.]. 1878G. Smith Life J. Wilson ii. (1879) 34 The New Testament in the Vernacular Marathee. 1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 187 Marāthi in the north-west Deccan. 1925S. N. Sen Administrative Syst. Marathas (ed. 2) 2 Next in importance, are the bakhars or Marathi prose chronicles. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 63 Such great languages as Marathi. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Note-Bk. in Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 513 We always had difficulty with the Marathi newsletter. 1953E. M. Forster Hill of Devi 41 He could recall his father reciting in Marathi the ballads and epics of their race. 1958A. Toynbee East to West xxxii. 99 If the city [sc. Bombay] had been merged in a separate Marathi-speaking state, [etc.]. 1967‘W. Haggard’ Conspirators ii. 20 His parents had spoken Marathi, beautiful Brahmin's Marathi. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 25 Apr. 21/2 The personal feelings of eminent Marathi poet P. S. Rege. 1971Femina (Bombay) 30 Apr. 16/2 (Advt.), In four languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. 1971H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote goes by Train ii. ix. 211 He ordered in Hindi. He ordered in Marathi. He ordered in crude English. |