Maratha

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Etymology

Borrowed from Marathi मराठा (marāṭhā). Doublet of Maharashtra.

Pronunciation

(India) IPA^(key): /məˈɾaː.ʈʰə /
(General American) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑdə/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːtə/

Noun

Maratha (plural Maratha or Marathas)

A member of a Hindu caste (or caste cluster) that is particularly associated with the Indian state of Maharashtra.
- 2004, D. L. Sheth, Ram Manohar Lohia on Caste in Indian Politics, [extracts from 1996, Lokayan Bulletin], Ghanshyam Shah (editor), Caste and Democratic Politics in India, Wimbledon Publishing Company (Anthem Press), page 81,
  The Marathas are a peculiar caste of Maharashtra, who claim to be Kshatriyas but are more like the cultivator-Sudras of north India.
- 2004, Kumar Suresh Singh (general editor), B. V. Bhanu, et al. (editors), People of India: Maharashtra, Volume 30, Part 2, Anthropological Survey of India, Popular Prakashan, page 1434,
  The Maratha are a numerically dominant caste in Maharashtra. As said earlier, Maratha is not a caste but a caste cluster, the main component[s] of which are the Marathas proper and the Kunbis or Kulwadis. […] The Maratha speak mainly Marathi, the language of the region.
- 2021, Anagha Ingole, Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), page 111:
  The latter^{[of two elements of anti-casteism]} was dominated by the Maratha caste and a Maratha leadership and was supported by the Maratha ruler of Kolhapur, Chattrapati Shahu, appealing primarily to Maratha-Kunbi cluster in its struggle against upper caste domination.
(more broadly, among historians, often attributive) A member of a Marathi-speaking people particularly associated with Maharashtra.
- 1961, Sailendra Nath Sen, Anglo-Maratha Relations During the Administration of Warren Hastings, Volume 1, Popular Prakashan, page 77:
  (3) Maratha vessels were to have free access to all French ports, and vice versa.
- 2023, Sangita Govindrao Ghar, Marathas Contribution in Deccan Plateau, Lulu, page 1,
  The first major threat to Moghul imperial power came from a Hindu tribal confederacy known as the Marathas. Located in the mountainous regions of the Deccan, the Marathas were mainly drawn from the lowest caste of society, but they became a powerfully militant community under their ruler, King Sivaji, who died in 1680.
- 2003, Randolf G. S. Cooper, The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India, Cambridge University Press, page 126:
  Then around 2 pm, a detachment of Maratha irregular horse approached and engaged the allied contingent of Mysore horse that were riding forward outpost duty for the British.

Derived terms

Related terms

Marathi

Translations

Hindu caste

French: Marathe (fr)
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Marathi-speaking people of Maharashtra

French: Marathe (fr) m or f
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Proper noun

Maratha

The Marathi language.

Translations

Marathi — see Marathi

Anagrams

Armatha, Ramatha, Tamarah

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μάραθα (Máratha).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ra.tʰa]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ra.ta]

Proper noun

Maratha f sg (genitive Marathae); first declension

A town of Arcadia situated near Buphagium, in Cynuria

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Maratha
genitive	Marathae
dative	Marathae
accusative	Maratham
ablative	Marathā
vocative	Maratha
locative	Marathae

References

“Maratha”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly