माता

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नानी नाना दादी दादा मामी मामा मौसा मौसी माता पिता ताऊ ताई बुआ फूफा चाचा चाची भांजा भांजी जीजा दीदी बहनोई बहन भैया भाभी भाई भौजाई भतीजा भतीजी जेठानी जेठ नंदोई ननद देवरानी देवर साला सलहज साली साढ़ू साला सलहज पति पत्नी समधी समधिन बहू बेटा पोता पोती बेटी दामाद जमाई नाती नातिन समधी समधिन
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• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /mɑː.t̪ɑː/,

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit माता (mātā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of माँ (mā̃).

In the sense of "smallpox", compare other-language epithets for the goddess Shitala and words for "mother" or "goddess" like Sanskrit शीतला (śītalā, “Shitala, smallpox”), Assamese আই (ai, “mother, smallpox”), Marathi देवी (devī, “goddess, smallpox”), and Tamil அம்மை (ammai, “mother, smallpox”).

माता • (mātā) f (masculine पिता, Urdu spelling ماتا)

1. mother

   Synonyms: अंबा (ambā), जननी (jannī), अम्मा (ammā), माँ (mā̃)

2. (Hinduism) Ellipsis of शीतला माता (śītlā mātā, “(Mother) Shitala”). A goddess associated with smallpox and more broadly the curing of poxes and diseases.
   1. (by extension) smallpox

      Synonyms: शीतला (śītlā), चेचक (cecak), मसूरिका (masūrikā)

Inherited from Sanskrit मत्तक (mattaka, “intoxicated”).

माता • (mātā) (Urdu spelling ماتا)^[1][2]

1. intoxicated, drunk

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit माता (mātā).

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• Phonetic Devanagari: माता

माता • (mātā) f

1. mother

   Synonyms: जननी (jananī), आमा (āmā)

माता (mātā)

1. Devanagari script form of mātā, which is nominative/vocative singular of मातृ (mātṛ, “mother”)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɑː.tɑ́ː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.t̪ɑː/

माता • (mātā́) third-singular indicative (type P, periphrastic future, root मा)

1. periphrastic future of मा (mā)

माता • (mātā́) stem, f

1. nominative singular of मातृ (mātṛ́, “mother”)