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नौठा

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Bhojpuri

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Sanskrit नव (nava)
    Sanskrit काष्ठ (kāṣṭha)
    Bhojpuri नौठा (nauṭhā)

    Inherited from Sanskrit *नवकाष्ठ (navakāṣṭha, “new stick, new wood”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from नव (nava, “new”) +‎ काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “stick, wood”).[1] Cognate with Maithili लवठा (lavᵊṭhā).

    Noun

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    नौठा (nauṭhā) m (Kaithi 𑂢𑂸𑂘𑂰)[2][3]

    1. a new plough
      Antonym: खुँटहरा (khũṭahᵊrā)
      Hypernym: हर (har)

    References

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    1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*navakāṣṭha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 401
    2. ^ Grierson, George A[braham] (1885) Bihār Peasant Life, being a discursive catalogue of the surroundings of the people of that province‎[1], Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Press
    3. ^ Arjun Tiwari (2019) “नौठा”, in भोजपुरी-हिंदी शब्दकोश [Bhojpuri-Hindi Dictionary]‎[2] (in Hindi), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: University Publications, page 265
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