मर्तबान
Hindi
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editमर्तबान • (martabān) m (Urdu spelling مرتبان)
Declension
editDeclension of मर्तबान (masc cons-stem)
References
edit- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मर्तबान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press