नाट

Marathi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naʈ/

Noun

नाट • (nāṭ) ?

1. A play with cowries: also the cowries (usually five)
2. the cross-lines drawn: also the board on which the game is played
3. Evil fortune; unpropitiousness or unluckiness; some marring, blasting, mischievous power (conceived as the author of a hinderance or an injury)
4. Bankrupt, done up
5. knavish. In auspicious, unpropitious.
6. dance
7. Clean lost or perished
8. gone beyond all trace or vestige. Out of one's depth
9. in a state of bewilderment
10. Out to sea; off from the land

References

• Berntsen Date, Molesworth, Tulpule/Feldhaus Vaze (2022) “नाट”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia