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4 unusual facts about Marathi language


Balaji Prabhakar Modak

He was one of the first in western India to begin translation of important scientific works into Marathi, using words in regular usage.

Eranthemum roseum

Eranthemum roseum, also known as blue eranthemum, rosy eranthemum (Marathi: Dasmuli, दसमुळी; Jangali aboli, जंगली अबोली ) is a native of the Western Ghats of India.

Hindustani etymology

In Marathi the अ remained, and the cognate of hai is aahe (आहे).

Plectranthus barbatus

In Marathi the plant roots are known as MainMula (माइनमुळा) and especially used for pickles.


All India Pre Medical Test

AIPMT is criticised for being conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where vernacular languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Marathi or Gujarati are more prominent.

Ambazari Lake

This lake was surrounded by mango trees, gaining the name Ambazari as Amba means in Mango in Marathi.

Bhakti Barve

She shot to fame with her performance in plays like the Marathi drama Ajab nyaya vartulacha ('Strange Justice of the Circle') in 1973, C. T. Khanolkar's adaptation of Brecht`s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mohan Rakesh`s Adhe-adhure, “Tee Phul Rani” (Flower Queen) (1975), P.L. Deshpande's noted adaptation of GB Shaw's Pygmalion and in Jay Lerner's My Fair Lady.

David Oliver Allen

He wrote tracts in "Mahratta," (Marathi language) and supervised a new translation of the Bible into that language.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

History TV18

The channel, is available in 6 languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi has hired Salman Khan as its spokesperson.

Hugh Findlay

He studied the Marathi language and spent considerable time discussing religion with a group of Brahmin intellectuals.

Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Jait Re Jait

Jait Re Jait (English: Win, Win) is 1977 Indian Marathi language film directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel and produced by Usha Mangeshkar and Hridaynath Mangeshkar, under the banner Mahalakshmi Chitra.

Kashinath Trimbak Telang

While devoted to the sacred classics of the Hindus, Telang did not neglect his own vernacular, Marathi literature being enriched by his translation of Lessing's Nathan the Wise, and an essay on Social Compromise.

Khandeshi languages

Borrowing and bending the words from Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, Ahirani has created its own words not found in any of these languages.

Language Interface Pack

In Microsoft terminology, a Language Interface Pack (LIP) is a localized skin for localizing software in emerging or minority language markets, such as Lithuanian, Serbian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Thai.

Leela Roy Ghosh

Leela Roy Ghosh (Hindi: लीला रॉय घोष Līlā Rŏya Ghōṣa, Bengali: লীলা রায় ঘোষ Līlā Rāẏa Ghōṣa, February 3, 1948 – May 11, 2012) was an Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist who spoke Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi and Urdu.

Madhukar Vasudev Dhond

He wrote in Marathi on Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram, Ramdas, Vitthal, Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Bal Sitaram Mardhekar, Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Ranjit Desai's novel Swami, Vijay Tendulkar's play Sakharam Binder, and many other topics.

Man Udhan Varyache

Man Udhan Varyache is a Popular marathi daily soap serial directed by well known Marathi Film director, producer and actor Mahesh Kothare.

Matsyaganda Express

The Matsyagandha Express (Kannada/Tulu: ಮತ್ಸ್ಯಗಂಧ ಎಕ್ಷ್ಪ್ರೆಸ್ಸ; Marathi/Konkani: मत्स्यगंधा एक्सप्रेस) is a daily superfast train running between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) and Mangalore Central.

Nagananda

The play was produced in January 2008 at Panaji ;Goa ( India ) in Marathi by Prabhakar Sanskritic Sanstha following the conventions propagated in the Natyasastra.

Neelam Shirke

Neelam Shirke is a leading actress of Marathi language television and cinema, known for her work in serials on Zee Marathi like Vadalwaat, Asambhav and Saheb, Bibi aani Mi.

Powada

In a recent Marathi movie, Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy (2009), The powada, Afzal Khanacha Vadh was played.

Prabhat Film Company

But soon the company realized its mistake, and joined the talkie era with Ayodhyecha Raja (The King of Ayodhya) in Marathi (1932), also starring Durga Khote, which was the first film of Marathi Cinema, and later made under the name Ayodhya Ka Raja in Hindi.

Ravindra Mankani

His work in movies for which he was awarded include 22 June 1897 and Limited Manuski ( Marathi - Limited humanity) directed by Nachiket and Jayoo Patwardhan and Varsa Lakshmicha.

Round Table India

Round Table India released Braille Dictionaries in Tamil and Marathi languages and distributed the same to several blind institutions.

Sadhukadi

Sadhukaḍi Bhasa, or Sant Bhasa (Saints' Language) is a vernacular written genre, popular in medieval North India, based on a mixture of Hindustani (Khariboli), Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Rajasthani, etc.

Saraswati Mandir

Saraswati Mandir Education Society is a pre-primary, primary, secondary and higher secondary school (English/Marathi medium) in the Mahim neighborhood of Mumbai, India.

Shivajirao Bhosale

Professor Shivajirao Bhosale (Marathi: शिवाजीराव भोसले; July 15, 1927 – June 29, 2010) was a noted orator and thinker from Maharashtra, India.

Sonalee Kulkarni

Sonalee speaks fluent Hindi, Marathi, English and Punjabi, although she faced some difficulty with Marathi while performing in her first Marathi film Bakula Namdev Ghotale.

Toe ring

It is worn as a symbol of the married state by Hindu women and is called bichiya (pronounced: bee-chee-ya) in Hindi, jodavi(जोडवी) in Marathi, Mettelu (మెట్టెలు) in Telugu, Metti in Tamil (மெட்டி), Kaalungura in Kannada.

Upara

Upara (a Marathi language word meaning outsider) is an autobiography written by Laxman Mane, a writer who lives in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Zatra

Zatra is the Konkani language term for the pilgrimage festivals celebrated at Hindu temples in Goa; the Hindi and Marathi language equivalents are Yatra and Jatra.


see also

1880 in poetry

Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son wrote down her poems for her

Goan literature

Dr. S. M. Tadkodkar, who was conferred Ph.D. degree by Goa University for his exhaustive research work on Prof. Anant Kaakaba Priolkar, contends that while the Kannadd language of Karnataka province was dominating the Goan culture, Marathi language and culture was embraced by Goans.

Shankar Sarda

Though he was a Marathi language writer but he was born to a Maheshwari Marwari family.