Marwarin.adj.
/mɑːˈwɑːri/, U.S. /ˌmɑrˈwɑri/ A. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Marwar, a region in the state of Rajasthan in north-western India.By historical association of trade, the term is often understood to denote a merchant banker or moneylender of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), many of whom are in fact Jains and not necessarily ethnic Marwaris.
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Malabar1582
Gujaratic1607
Bengalan1613
Goan1652
Hindustan1662
Macassar1665
Gangetic1677
Malabarian1709
Mysorean1761
Bengalese1778
Assamese1794
Hindustani1813
Marwari1815
Sindhi1815
mofussilite1828
Mizo1832
Goanese1835
Punjabi1843
Bengali1848
Sindian1849
Madrasi1851
Toda1851
Hindia1853
Lushai1862
Kashmirian1876
Kashmir1882
Kashmiri1882
Konkani1885
ditcher1886
Ladakhi1893
Bihari1897
Sikkimese1938
Rajasthani1947
Maharashtrian1953
1815 J. R. Carnac Let. Feb. in Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay (1819) 1 297 The failure of rain in Marwar, and the ruin by the locusts of the products of the land..drove the inhabitants of that unfortunate country into..Guzerat... Miseries seemed to follow the footsteps of the Marwarees.
1826 W. B. Hockley Pandurang Hari II. iii. 70 I..implicated by name..Sewchund the Marwarry, and many others.
1832 J. Tod Ann. Rajast'han II. iii. ii. 234 The wealthy bankers and merchants of these regions scattered throughout India, are all known under one denomination, Marwarí, which is erroneously supposed to apply to the Jodpoor territory.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 760/1 In the interior of the Bombay Presidency, business is mainly divided between two classes, the Baniyas of Guzerat and the Marwaris from Rajputana.
1935 Amer. Hist. Rev. 40 753 The predominance of the Scotch in jute, the Parsees in cotton, and the Marwaris in retail trade and money-lending.
1985 T. Ali Nehrus & Gandhis v. 223 The British tea-planters..were replaced by Marwaris from southern India.
2. The Indic language spoken in Rajasthan.
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Marwari1885
1885 G. C. Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dict. 199/2 Márwári is also the name of the language of Márwár.
1908 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India IX. ii. 16 Standard Mārwāṛī varies but little from Jaipuri.
1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 590 Marwari... The standard form of Rajasthani. 23 dialects.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Marwar, its people, or the Marwari language.
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Mogul1617
Hindustan1655
Malabaric1680
Malabarian1709
Mogulish1719
Bengalian1769
Punjabi1794
Bengalic1801
Oriya1801
Telugu1816
Karnata1820
Punjab1833
Kanarese1838
Mysorean1851
Marwari1855
Bengali1858
Andaman1860
Lushai1862
Manipuri1868
Jaipur1889
Malabarese1922
Madrasi1924
Mewari1925
Maharashtrian1954
Bangla1971
1855 H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms India 332/2 Márwáṛí bankers are mostly of the Jain religion.
1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. xiv. 129 A black, flamboyant Marwari stallion.
1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate i. 72 These houses..are the palaces of the Marwari merchants, the Jews of India.
1964 S. K. Chatterji in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 412 In Rajasthani,..the passage will be as follows (in the Marwari dialect).
1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave viii. 92 Money-lenders..in their Marwari turbans.
1997 Gallop! Jan. 28/1 Recapture the days of the Raj in rural Rajasthan, riding sturdy Marwari horses with distinctive inwardly curving ears.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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