पेहलवान

Marathi

Alternative forms
  • पहिलवान (pahilvān)
  • पेलवान (pelvān)
  • पैलवान (pailvān)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پهلوان (pahlawān). Compare Hindi पहलवान (pahalvān).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pe.ɦəl.ʋan/, [pel.ʋan]

Noun

पेहलवान • (pehalvān) m

  1. wrestler
    • 2015 January 3, Khaled Hosseini, chapter 32, in A Thousand Splendid Suns‎, Mehta Publishing House:
      “एवढ्या लवकर एवढं फुगलं?” रशीद म्हणाला, “[तारीक] म्हणजे एक छान छान मुलगा असेल. अगदी आपल्या बापासारखा पेहलवान.”
      “evaḍhyā lavkar evḍha phuglam?” raśīd mhaṇālā, “[tārīk] mhaṇje ek chān chān mulgā asel. agdī āpalyā bāpāsārkhā pehalvān.”
      "So much swelling so quickly?" Rasheed said. "[Tariq] will be a good boy. A wrestler just like his father."

References
  • Berntsen, Maxine, “पहिलवान”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983.
  • Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “पहिलवान”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
  • Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “पहिलवान”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
  • दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “पहिलवान”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).
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