मर्तबान
Hindi
Etymology
From Mon [Term?], a small port town in Burma today called Mottama, the name of which, under the reign of the Kingdom of Pegu, in the fifteenth to seventeenth century was used to denote glazed earthenware jars sent to influential persons, Martaban jars. The term came to denote more dissimilar types of jars so that it now means merely mundane canning jars across languages.Cognate to Western Panjabi مرتبان (martabān), Persian مرتبان (martabân), Arabic مَرْطَبَان (marṭabān).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /məɾ.t̪ə.bɑːn/, [məɾ.t̪ə.bä̃ːn̪]
Noun
मर्तबान • (martabān) m (Urdu spelling مرتبان)
- jar
Declension
Declension of मर्तबान (masc cons-stem)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | मर्तबान martabān | मर्तबान martabān |
| oblique | मर्तबान martabān | मर्तबानों martabānõ |
| vocative | मर्तबान martabān | मर्तबानो martabāno |
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “मर्तबान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
- Simões, Sara (2010), “A brief study concerning Martaban jars”, in Sila Tripati, editor, Maritime Contacts of the Past: Deciphering Connections amongst Communities, New Delhi: Delta Book World, →ISBN