माषी
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Old Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Apabhramsa मक्खिय (makkhiya), from Prakrit मक्खिआ (makkhiā), from Sanskrit मक्षिका (mákṣikā).[1]
Cognates
Early New Indo-Aryan cognates include Old Awadhi माछी (māchī), Old Punjabi ਮਖਿ (makhi /makkhi/), Old Marathi 𑘦𑘰𑘭𑘲 (māsī), Middle Bengali মাখি (makhi), মাছি (machi).
Noun
[edit]- fly
- c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 82.2:
- मकरी घरि माषी छछिहारी ।
मास पसारी चील्ह रषवारी ॥- makarī ghari māṣī chachihārī.
māsa pasārī cīlha raṣavārī. - /makarī ghari mākhī chachihāri.
mā̃sa pasārī cīlha rakhavārī ./
- 2013 translation by Johannes Bronkhorst
- [I]n [a] spider’s house the fly strains buttermilk
meat is on display under the supervision of a kite [bird]
- [I]n [a] spider’s house the fly strains buttermilk
- makarī ghari māṣī chachihārī.
- मकरी घरि माषी छछिहारी ।
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]More information
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mákṣā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 554
- ^ Winand M. Callewaert, Swapna Sharma (2009) Dictionary of Bhakti, Ramesh Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi 110 015: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 1678, column 2.
- ^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 558
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