मुकांम

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Old Hindi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian مقام (muqām), from Arabic مُقَام (muqām). Compare Old Punjabi ਮੁਕਾਮੁ (mukāmu), Middle Bengali মোকাম (mōkam).

Noun

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मुकांम (mukā̃ma)

  1. halting place
    • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 280.5:
      पूरब देस हरी का बास
      पच्छिम अलह मुकांमां
      pūraba desa harī kā bāsa
      pacchima alaha mukā̃mā̃
      is Hari’s abode in the country of the east?
      Is the home of Allāh in the west?

Descendants

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  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: मुक़ाम (muqām), मक़ाम (maqām)
    Urdu: مقَام

Further reading

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  • 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 559