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Old Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مقام (muqām), from Arabic مُقَام (muqām). Compare Old Punjabi ਮੁਕਾਮੁ (mukāmu), Middle Bengali মোকাম (mōkam).
Noun
मुकांम (mukā̃ma)
- halting place
c. 1420,
Kabīr,
Kabīr Vāṇī 280.5:
- पूरब देस हरी का बास
पच्छिम अलह मुकांमां- pūraba desa harī kā bāsa
pacchima alaha mukā̃mā̃ - is Hari’s abode in the country of the east?
Is the home of Allāh in the west?
Descendants
Further reading
- 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 559