Maithil
English
Alternative forms
- Maithila
Etymology
From Sanskrit मैथिल (maithila).
Noun
Maithil (plural Maithils)
- A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group from the Indian subcontinent who speak the Maithili language.
Adjective
Maithil (comparative more Maithil, superlative most Maithil)
- Of or pertaining to the Maithils.
- 1986, Asim Maitra, Religious Life of the Brahman: A Case Study of Maithil Brahmans, Inter-India Publications, →ISBN, page 138:
- They also throw light on the basic attitudes of the Maithil culture and its formal traditional modes of behaviour, some of which are sacramental in character.