మేస్త్రి
See also: మేస్త్రీ
Telugu
Alternative forms
- మేస్త్రీ (mēstrī)
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese mestre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːst̪ɾi/
Noun
మేస్త్రి • (mēstri) ? (plural మేస్త్రులు)
- foreman, master or head workman/worker; particularly in construction work.
- (Telangana) construction worker, mason
- (North Andhra) negotiator, mediator, broker
References
- "మేస్త్రీ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1038
- మేస్త్రి at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
- “మేస్త్రి”, in ప్రాంతీయ మాండలిక పదకోశం [Regional Dialectical Dictionary] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Telugu Academy, 2004
- Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 479.
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