போகி
Tamil
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]போகி • (pōki)
- Bhogi, a harvest festival marking the beginning of the four-day Pongal/Sankranti celebration. (Compare Lohri, the northern counterpart of bhogi.)
Declension
[edit]| i-stem declension of போகி (pōki) (singular only) | ||
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| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | போகி pōki |
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| Vocative | போகியே pōkiyē |
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| Accusative | போகியை pōkiyai |
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| Dative | போகிக்கு pōkikku |
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| Genitive | போகியுடைய pōkiyuṭaiya |
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| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | போகி pōki |
- |
| Vocative | போகியே pōkiyē |
- |
| Accusative | போகியை pōkiyai |
- |
| Dative | போகிக்கு pōkikku |
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| Benefactive | போகிக்காக pōkikkāka |
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| Genitive 1 | போகியுடைய pōkiyuṭaiya |
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| Genitive 2 | போகியின் pōkiyiṉ |
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| Locative 1 | போகியில் pōkiyil |
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| Locative 2 | போகியிடம் pōkiyiṭam |
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| Sociative 1 | போகியோடு pōkiyōṭu |
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| Sociative 2 | போகியுடன் pōkiyuṭaṉ |
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| Instrumental | போகியால் pōkiyāl |
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| Ablative | போகியிலிருந்து pōkiyiliruntu |
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References
[edit]- Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “போகி”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]