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marathi
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun marathi has 1 sense
- marathi(n = noun.communication) mahratti - an Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script; Array is a kind of sanskrit, sanskritic language
CIDE DICTIONARY
marathi, prop. n.
A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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