Maithil

English

Alternative forms

• Maithila

Etymology

From Sanskrit मैथिल (maithila).

Noun

Maithil (plural Maithils)

1. 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)

1. Of or pertaining to the Maithils.
   • 1986, Asim Maitra, Religious Life of the Brahman: A Case Study of Maithil Brahmans‎^[1], 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.