मुकांम

See also: मुक़ाम

Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مقام (muqām), from Arabic مُقَام (muqām). Compare Old Punjabi ਮੁਕਾਮੁ (mukāmu), Middle Bengali মোকাম (mōkam).

Noun

मुकांम (mukā̃ma)

1. halting place
   • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 280.5:

     पूरब देस हरी का बास
     पच्छिम अलह मुकांमां

     pūraba desa harī kā bāsa
     pacchima alaha mukā̃mā̃

     is Hari’s abode in the country of the east?
     Is the home of Allāh in the west?

Descendants

• Hindustani:

  Hindi: मुक़ाम (muqām), मक़ाम (maqām)

  Urdu: مقَام

Further reading

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 559