மாஜி

Tamil

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (māzī), from Arabic مَاضِي (māḍī). Cognate with Gujarati માજી (mājī), Kannada ಮಾಜಿ (māji), Marathi माजी (mājī), Hindi माज़ी (māzī), and Telugu మాజీ- (mājī-).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maːd͡ʑɪ/, [maːd͡ʑi]

Adjective

மாஜி • (māji)

former, previous, ex-, past
Synonyms: முந்தின (muntiṉa), முன்னாள் (muṉṉāḷ)

அவள் என் மாஜி காதலி
avaḷ eṉ māji kātali
She is my ex-lover
late, deceased

References

Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “மாஜி”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]

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