மாஜி

Tamil

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ماضی (māzī), from Arabic مَاضِي (māḍī). Cognate with Gujarati માજી (mājī), Kannada ಮಾಜಿ (māji), Marathi माजी (mājī), Hindi माज़ी (māzī), and Telugu మాజీ- (mājī-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːd͡ʑɪ/, [maːd͡ʑi]

Adjective

மாஜி • (māji)

1. former, previous, ex-, past

   Synonyms: முந்தின (muntiṉa), முன்னாள் (muṉṉāḷ)

   அவள் என் மாஜி காதலி

   avaḷ eṉ māji kātali

   She is my ex-lover

2. late, deceased

References

• Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “மாஜி”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]