मलपृष्ठ

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit मलपृष्ठ (malapṛṣṭha)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /məl.pɾuʂ.ʈʰə/

Noun

मलपृष्ठ • (malpŕṣṭha) n

the back cover of a book

Sanskrit

Etymology

From मल (mála) +‎ पृष्ठ (pṛṣṭhá); literally "dust-page".

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐ.lɐ.pr̩ʂ.ʈʰɐ/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /mɐ.l̪ɐˈpr̩ʂ.ʈʰɐ/

Noun

मलपृष्ठ • (malapṛṣṭha) stem, n

the outer page of a book (left unwritten)

Descendants

Magadhi Prakrit:
- Bengali: মলাট (molaṭ)

Further reading

Monier Williams (1899) “मलपृष्ठ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 792.

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