#learn marathi

I wanted to add IIT Bombay's Marathi Wordnet, but unfortunately, their site doesn't have a search URL I could use.

I also went ahead and did the research to find and add dictionaries for: Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam.

This makes LanguageCrush one of the most robust vocab-reading platforms out there for South Asian languages.

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Nouns

भारत [bhārat] - India (m.)

लोकशाही [lokśahī] - democracy (f.)

हुकुमशाही [hukumśāhī] - dictatorship (f.)

राजकारणी [rājkārṇī] - politician (m.)

नेता [neta] - leader (colloquially, politician) (m.)

जनता [janatā] - public, people (f.)

पक्ष [pakṣa] - party, faction (m.)

नेतृत्व [netṛtva] - leadership (n.)

युती [yutī] - alliance (f.)

राष्ट्र [rāṣtra] - nation, state (m.)

निवडणूक [nivaḍṇūk] - election (f.)

आयोग [āyog] - commission (m.)

मतदान [matadān] - voting (n.)

मतदार [matadār] - voter (m.)

मतदारसंघ [matadārsaṅgha] - constituency (m.)

मत [mat] - vote (n.)

निकाल [nikāl] - result, results (m.)

मोजणी [mozṇī] - counting (f.)

विजय [vijay] - victory (m.)

पराभव [parābhav] - defeat (m.)

संसद [saṅsad] - parliament (n.)

लोकसभा [loksabhā] - Lok Sabha (The Lower House of Parliament) (f.)

खासदार [khāsdār] - member of parliament (m.)

उमेदवार [umedvār] - candidate (m.)

प्रतिनिधी [pratinidhī] - representative (m.)

मंत्री [maṅtrī] - minister (m.)

पंतप्रधान [paṅtapradhān] - prime minister (m.)

धर्मनिरपेक्षता [dharmanirapekṣatā] - secularism (f.)

समाजवाद [samājvād] - socialism (m.)

राष्ट्रवाद [rāṣtravād] - nationalism (m.)

साम्यवाद [sāmyavād] - communism (m.)

सरकार [sarkār] - government (n.)

शासन [śāsan] - administration (n.)

विकास [vikās] - development (m.)

प्रगती [pragatī] - progress (f.)

आघाडी [āghāḍī] - front, forefront (f.)

सेना [sena] - army, armed force (f.)

Adjectives

भारतीय [bhāratīya] - Indian

राष्ट्रीय [rāṣtrīya] - national

विजयी [vijayī] - victorious

समाजवादी [samājvādī] - socialist

राष्ट्रवादी [rāṣtravādī] - nationalist

साम्यवादी [sāmyavādī] - communist

Verbs

जिंकणे [jiṅkṇe] - to win

हरणे [harṇe] - to lose

मोजणे [mozṇe] - to count

निवडणे [nivaḍṇe] - to choose, to elect

मतदान करणे [matadān karṇe] - to vote

-ला मत देणे [-lā mat deṇe] - to vote for

निवडून येणे [nivaḍūn yeṇe] - to be elected

I use the following myself apart from Shabdkosh:

Transliteral Foundation

Manogat (more on the technical side, needs more than 4 characters when searching)

There is also the Marathi to English dictionary by Berntsen, which can be back-searched here. The Molesworth dictionary can be handy, but it's ancient now, so it could be very outdated.

That said, learning context is difficult with these dictionaries as they're not very detailed in their meanings.

just curious, do you listen to any music in marathi? (or really, do you have any artist recommendations?)

Last i checked, an internet search did not turn up anything that really 'clicked' with me (although i didn't look very far), but i tend to listen to music more than i do watching videos or reading.. hey, any input that works, right?

(Also, while searching to see if anything of this nature had been asked before... does खूपदा mean long? or is that guess off-base? I do have a dictionary but this way is more fun 👀)

Ooooh hi!!

I also haven't had any Marathi music click with me, though like every soul in Maharashtra, I cannot get Zingaat out of my head.

I often delve into indie music scenes in India on Spotify and Bandcamp, but I find that much of it is in Hindi or English, and not in genres I gravitate to.

If you like hip-hop/rap though, I cannot recommend Swadesi and MC Mawali enough. Solid indie protest hip-hop in Marathi.

Here's an interview:

As for खूपदा, it means 'often', not 'long'.

खूप is "a lot", and -दा is a suffix used to indicate every time something happens. चारदा, for instance, means "four times".

Marathi:

Mum: दाराबाहेर कॉमेंटरी ऐकत असेल. [dārābāher kŏmenṭarī aikat asel] Me: विचारत असेल, "संजय मांजरेकर अजूनही खेळतो का?" [vicārat asel, "saṅjay māṅzarekar azūnahī kheḷto kā?"]

English:

Mum: She must be listening to the commentary outside the door. Me: She must be asking "Does Sanjay Manjrekar still play?"

Pun Explanation:

It means something like "or whatever", but also has a tinge of "so-called".

I only knew that hukum was a card (from that one card game) what does it actually mean?

हुकूम [hukūm] means 'order' in the context of a person in authority ordering a subordinate. The term derives from Arabic حُكْم (ḥukm), meaning to exercise authority, to decree, or to reign.

Therefore, the Marathi term for dictatorship, हुकूमशाही [hukūmśāhī] (I misspelled it before!), means 'rule by order'.