माषी

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See also: मषि, मषी, माष, मुष्, मूष्, मेष, and मेषी

Old Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa मक्खिय (makkhiya), from Prakrit मक्खिआ (makkhiā), from Sanskrit मक्षिका (mákṣikā).[1]


Cognates

Early New Indo-Aryan cognates include Old Awadhi माछी (māchī), Old Punjabi ਮਖਿ (makhi /⁠makkhi⁠/), Old Marathi 𑘦𑘰𑘭𑘲 (māsī), Middle Bengali মাখি (makhi), মাছি (machi).

Noun

माषी (māṣī /mākhī/) f [2][3]

  1. fly
    • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 82.2:
      मकरी घरि माषी छछिहारी ।
      मास पसारी चील्ह रषवारी ॥
      makarī ghari māṣī chachihārī.
      māsa pasārī cīlha raṣavārī.
      /makarī ghari mākhī chachihāri.
      mā̃sa pasārī cīlha rakhavārī .      /
      • 2013 translation by Johannes Bronkhorst
        n spider’s house the fly strains buttermilk
        meat is on display under the supervision of a kite

Descendants

References

More information
  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mákṣā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 554
  2. ^ Winand M. Callewaert, Swapna Sharma (2009) Dictionary of Bhakti, Ramesh Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi 110 015: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 1678, column 2.
  3. ^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 558
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