Dharavi

English

Dharavi

Etymology

Transliteration of Marathi धारावी (dhārāvī).

Proper noun

Dharavi

1. A central suburb in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
   • 2011 November 29, Adam Werbach, “How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process.

   • 2016, Jasmine Y. Damle, Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen, Routledge, →ISBN, page 209:

     Indian studios provide media services to Western costumers, and foreign money has been poured into shared partnership studios working in the Mumbai film industry. ‘It’s Raining Dollars in ‘B-Town’, trumpeted India Today headlines, and international involvement has only increased. In 2008, Danny Boyle’s cinematic adaptation of Slumdog Millionaire was shot in Bombay’s Dharavi slum and attracted worldwide attention.

Translations

suburb of Mumbai

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達拉維 / 达拉维

• Gujarati: ધારાવી f (dhārāvī)
• Hindi: धारावी f (dhārāvī)
• Marathi: धारावी f (dhārāvī)