चतुर्मास

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चतुर्मास (caturmāsa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.t̪ʊɾ.mɑːs/,

चतुर्मास • (caturmās) m (Urdu spelling چَتُرْماس)

1. four months of rain

• Bahri, Caturvedi, Dasa-Hindi (2022) “चतुर्मास”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Hindi Dictionaries]

From चतुर् (catur) +‎ मास (māsa).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.tuɾ.mɑː.sɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.t̪uɾˈmɑː.s̪ɐ/

चतुर्मास • (caturmāsa) stem, n

1. a period of four months

• Pali: catumāsa
• Gujarati: ચૌમાસું (caumāsũ)
• Hindustani: caumās, caumā
  • Hindi: चौमास, चौमा
  • Urdu: چَوماس, مَوما
• Kumaoni: चौमास (caumās)
• Marathi: चौमास (caumās)
• Nepali: चौमासा (caumāsā)
• Punjabi: caumāhā
  • Gurmukhi script: ਚੌਮਾਸਾ, ਚੋਮਾਸਾ, ਚੁਮਾਸਾ, ਚੌਮਾਂ
  • Shahmukhi script: چَوماسا, چوماسا, چُماسا (cumāsā), چَوماں

Borrowed terms

• → Hindi: चतुर्मास (caturmās)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “caturmāsa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press