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Etymology
A term of uncertain interpretation, an almost-hapax legomenon only attested twice in the Sanskrit corpus; once in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad, and once in the Bhāradvājagṛhyasūtra. If the original meaning is "locust", then it is likely a Wanderwort shared with Dravidian and Iranian languages; compare Kannada ಮಿಡಿಚೆ (miḍice) / ಮಿಡಿತೆ (miḍite, “locust”), as well as Persian ملخ (malax, “grasshopper”).
Pronunciation
Noun
मटची • (maṭacī) stem, f
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Probably locust or hail/hailstone.
- Synonyms: ह्रादुनि (hrāduni), धाराङ्कुर (dhārāṅkura), जलशर्करा (jalaśarkarā), वर्षोपल (varṣopala)
c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.10.1:
- मटचीहतेषु कुरुष्वाटिक्या सह जाययोषस्तिर्ह चाक्रायण इभ्यग्रामे प्रद्राणक उवास ॥
- maṭacīhateṣu kuruṣvāṭikyā saha jāyayoṣastirha cākrāyaṇa ibhyagrāme pradrāṇaka uvāsa.
- The land of the Kurus was (struck by hail / besieged by locusts), and a young man living there named Uṣasti, the son of Cakra, was in great distress. He left home along with his wife, Āṭikī, and moved to a prosperous village.
Declension
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “मटची”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 774/2.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “maṭacī”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मटची,_मटती”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1221
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मटची”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 213
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 293
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 553-4