mahawat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
| PIE word |
|---|
| *méǵh₂s |
Borrowed from Hindi महावत (mahāvat, “elephant keeper”), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “elephant keeper; high official; king’s minister”), from महा (mahā, “great”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) + मात्र (mātra, “measure; quantity”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)).[1][2]
Noun[edit]
mahawat (plural mahawats)
- Synonym of mahout
References[edit]
- ^ “mahout, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2022.
- ^ “mahout, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *méǵh₂s
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁-
- English terms borrowed from Hindi
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English lemmas
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- English countable nouns