TransLiteral Foundations — अभिमान (abhimānḥ), aggregated Marathi dictionary entries
- Author: unauthored (TransLiteral Foundations, a Marathi digital-dictionary aggregation project)
- Publication: transliteral.org
- Date: undated (dictionary aggregator, no publication date given)
- URL: https://www.transliteral.org/dictionary/अभिमान/word
- Type: primary/tertiary mixed — the page directly reproduces entries from several distinct Marathi dictionaries under one headword; treated here as a corroborating aggregation rather than a single authored source. Neutral, lexicographic.
- Accessed: 2026-09-06
Extract
The page reproduces अभिमान entries from at least four separate Marathi dictionaries:
- Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary: "Pride, haughtiness, conceit, opinionativeness," plus a sense for conscious/possessive feeling toward something — matching this project's own direct query of the DSAL-hosted Molesworth dictionary (see dsal-uchicago-molesworth-1857-abhimana-marathi.md).
- Marathi Synonyms Dictionary (मराठी पर्यायी शब्दकोश): two noun senses — (1) अहंकार, आढयता, गर्व, घमेंड, चढेलपणा (ego, haughtiness, pride, arrogance, conceitedness); (2) अस्मिता, मान, श्रेष्ठत्वाची जाणीव (self-identity/self-respect, honor, a sense of superiority).
- Marathi WordNet (mar.wordnet.indo): glosses the word as "yogya garv" (योग्य गर्व, "worthy/legitimate pride"), with an example sentence about maintaining pride regarding one's country (patriotic pride).
- Maharashtra Shabdakosh (महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश), quoted verbatim: sense 1 — "गर्व ; ताठा ; आढ्यता ; तोरा ; चढेलपणा ; मगरुरी" (pride; stiffness/stubbornness; haughtiness; airs; presumption; conceitedness); sense 2 — "आत्मिक भावना ; आपलेपणाची दृष्टि किंवा जाणीव" (a feeling of the self/spirit; a sense or view of ownership/belonging).
- Across all four independently sourced dictionaries reproduced on this page, every sense given falls within the pride/ego/self-regard/ownership range. None records any sense of sulking, hurt feelings directed at a loved one, pique, or grievance — the same pattern this project has independently confirmed for Hindi (via Hindwi, Rekhta, and HinKhoj) and now for Marathi across four separate sources at once.
Gaps
- Retrieved via WebFetch summarization rather than a raw-HTML read of the page; the Maharashtra Shabdakosh Devanagari text was independently re-confirmed on a second, separately worded fetch requesting verbatim quotation, which mitigates but does not eliminate this project's standing WebFetch-synthesis caution.
- The underlying dictionaries' own publication dates and editions are not given on this aggregator page.