போகி

Tamil

Etymology

From போக்கி (pōkki, “cleansed, cleaned, dealt with”, from போக்கு (pōkku, “to remove, dispel, cleanse”)), referring to the practice of discarding old and unused objects from one's household on the festival day as a sign of making room for new things in the coming year. Compare cognates Kannada ಭೋಗಿ (bhōgi) and Telugu భోగి (bhōgi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poːɡɪ/, [poːɡi]

• IPA^(key): /boːɡɪ/, [boːɡi]

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Proper noun

போகி • (pōki)

1. Bhogi, a harvest festival marking the beginning of the four-day Pongal/Sankranti celebration. (Compare Lohri, the northern counterpart of bhogi.)

Declension

i-stem declension of போகி (pōki) (singular only)
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	போகி pōki	-
Vocative	போகியே pōkiyē	-
Accusative	போகியை pōkiyai	-
Dative	போகிக்கு pōkikku	-
Genitive	போகியுடைய pōkiyuṭaiya	-
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	போகி pōki	-
Vocative	போகியே pōkiyē	-
Accusative	போகியை pōkiyai	-
Dative	போகிக்கு pōkikku	-
Benefactive	போகிக்காக pōkikkāka	-
Genitive 1	போகியுடைய pōkiyuṭaiya	-
Genitive 2	போகியின் pōkiyiṉ	-
Locative 1	போகியில் pōkiyil	-
Locative 2	போகியிடம் pōkiyiṭam	-
Sociative 1	போகியோடு pōkiyōṭu	-
Sociative 2	போகியுடன் pōkiyuṭaṉ	-
Instrumental	போகியால் pōkiyāl	-
Ablative	போகியிலிருந்து pōkiyiliruntu	-

References

• Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “போகி”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]