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Etymology

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Compare Marathi.
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Noun

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Maratha (plural Maratha or Marathas)

  1. A Hindu caste (or caste cluster) that is particularly associated with the Indian state of Maharashtra; a member of said caste.
    • 2004, D. L. Sheth, Ram Manohar Lohia on Caste in Indian Politics, [extracts from 1996, Lokayan Bulletin], Ghanshyam Shah (editor), Caste and Democratic Politics in India, Wimbledon Publishing Company (Anthem Press), page 81,
      The Marathas are a peculiar caste of Maharashtra, who claim to be Kshatriyas but are more like the cultivator-Sudras of north India.
    • 2004, Kumar Suresh Singh (general editor), B. V. Bhanu, et al. (editors), People of India: Maharashtra, Volume 30, Part 2, Anthropological Survey of India, Popular Prakashan, page 1434,
      The Maratha are a numerically dominant caste in Maharashtra. As said earlier, Maratha is not a caste but a caste cluster, the main component[s] of which are the Marathas proper and the Kunbis or Kulwadis. [] The Maratha speak mainly Marathi, the language of the region.
    • 2021, Anagha Ingole, Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), page 111:
      The latter[of two elements of anti-casteism] was dominated by the Maratha caste and a Maratha leadership and was supported by the Maratha ruler of Kolhapur, Chattrapati Shahu, appealing primarily to Maratha-Kunbi cluster in its struggle against upper caste domination.
  2. (more broadly, among historians) A Marathi-speaking people particularly associated with Maharashtra; a member of said people (regardless of caste); frequently used attributively.
    • 1961, Sailendra Nath Sen, Anglo-Maratha Relations During the Administration of Warren Hastings, Volume 1, Popular Prakashan, page 77:
      (3) Maratha vessels were to have free access to all French ports, and vice versa.
    • 2023, Sangita Govindrao Ghar, Marathas Contribution in Deccan Plateau, Lulu, page 1,
      The first major threat to Moghul imperial power came from a Hindu tribal confederacy known as the Marathas. Located in the mountainous regions of the Deccan, the Marathas were mainly drawn from the lowest caste of society, but they became a powerfully militant community under their ruler, King Sivaji, who died in 1680.
    • 2003, Randolf G. S. Cooper, The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India, Cambridge University Press, page 126:
      Then around 2 pm, a detachment of Maratha irregular horse approached and engaged the allied contingent of Mysore horse that were riding forward outpost duty for the British.

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Proper noun

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Maratha

  1. The Marathi language.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μάραθα (Máratha).

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Proper noun

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Maratha f sg (genitive Marathae); first declension

  1. A town of Arcadia situated near Buphagium, in Cynuria

Declension

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Maratha
genitive Marathae
dative Marathae
accusative Maratham
ablative Marathā
vocative Maratha
locative Marathae

References

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  • Maratha”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly