लिलाव

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese leilão, from Arabic الإِعْلَام (al-ʔiʕlām, “notice, instruction”). Compare Gujarati લિલામ (lilām), Kannada ಲಿಲಾವು (lilāvu), Malayalam ലേലം (lēlaṁ), Hindi नीलाम (nīlām), Bengali নিলাম (nilam).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.laʋ/

Noun

लिलाव • (lilāv) m

1. auction

References

• Berntsen Date, Molesworth, Tulpule/Feldhaus Vaze (2022) “लिलाव”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Marathi Dictionaries]