मराठी बोलींचे सर्वेक्षण

Survey of Dialects of the Marathi Language

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Broom-1(Broom typically used for cleaning the areas outside the house)

Download Broom-1 Broom typically used for cleaning the areas outside the house

The lexical variants presented in the note below are arranged according to their frequency of occurrence in the survey data-from most frequent to least frequent.

The following variations have been observed for the concept of broom in different dialects of Marathi: kʰərʰaṭa,kʰəṭṭa, kʰrʰaṭa, kʰəroṭa, kʰraṭo jʰaḍu, jaḍu, jʰaru, jʰaḷu, ǰʰaḍu, bʰutari, butari,bʰokri, bokʰri, bokʰrya, bokri, bahri, bʰara, baḍi, bəhara, bahəru, bʰyəḍo, saḷuta, saḷta, salati, saḷu, saḷota, səḷota, səraṭa, səraṭi, san, sarən, sarəṇ, ssuni, pʰəḍa, pʰəḷa, halta, halato, bas, basor, ɡʰoḷ,ɡʰoḷən, bndən, širawa, širaw, širowa, waḍwən, waḍʰwən, kəisar, molo, muɡlo, muɡḍo, mweli, jʰaḍni, jʰaḍṇi, jʰanni, ǰʰanni, ǰʰaḍni, kersuṇi, kersuni, ləkšmi, loṭna, etc.

Among these, saḷuta and its phonetic variants sauta, saḷta, saḷati, etc. were elicited in Kolhapur district as well as in Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts of the south Konkan belt. butari and its phonetic variants such as bʰutari, butara, bʰutaru, along with ǰʰaḍu and similar words were reported in Raigad, Thane, and Palghar district. The usage of words like halta, saḷta from Kokan-Kolhapur region and jʰaḍṇi, kersuni, bəhara from Nashik, Nandurbar, Dhule, and Jalgaon districts were also reported in Palghar and Thane districts due to their geographical contiguity with the mentioned districts/regions. The term kersuṇi was observed in districts of central Maharashtra such as Solapur, Satara, Sangli, and Pune, while the word pʰəḍa or pʰḷa was mainly noted in Latur, Osmanabad, Nagpur, Jalgaon, Wardha, Nanded, Yavatmal, Jalna, Buldhana, and Amaravati districts. Variations such as hiryaca jʰaḍu, narəḷaca jʰaḍu, naɡlači jʰaḍu appear to be derived from the type of plant used to make the broom. Whereas variants like jʰaḍni, loṭna are action indicative.