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Borrowed from Kannada ಮಾತು (mātu, “speech”).
𑘦𑘰𑘝 (māta) f (Devanagari मात)
- conversation, talk
- description
- news
- praise
- Shankar Gopal Tulpule, Anne Feldhaus (1999) “मात”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan