Konkani edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

आवय (āvay) (Latin script avoi, Kannada script ಆವಯ್)

  1. mother
    Synonyms: मांय (māiya), जननी (jannī), माता (mātā)
    Coordinate term: बापूय (bāpūy)

References edit

  • Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei (1883) An English-Konkani Dictionary: And A Konkani-English Dictionary[1], Mangalore: Basel Mission Press
  • Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017) IndoWordNet[2]