dialect meaning in Marathi
बोली bolī
UK/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkt/
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Australia/ˈdɑe.əˌlekt/
dialect in Marathi: बोली (bolī), पोटभाषा (poṭbhāṣā). In English, dialect means a lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
Marathi words for dialect
- particular variety of a language
- बोली bolī, पोटभाषा poṭbhāṣā
English meaning of dialect
- noun A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
- noun A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
- noun Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
- noun A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
dialect in a sentence
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
Synonyms of dialect
dialect in other languages
- dialect in Hindi
- dialect in Tamil
- dialect in Urdu
- dialect in Bengali
- dialect in Telugu
- dialect in Malayalam
- dialect in Kannada
- dialect in Punjabi
- dialect in Gujarati
- dialect in Odia
- dialect in Sanskrit
- dialect in Sinhala
- dialect in Assamese
- dialect in Nepali
- dialect in Pashto
- dialect in Tagalog
- dialect in Arabic
- dialect in Malay
- dialect in Indonesian
- dialect in Thai
- dialect in Vietnamese
- dialect in Myanmar
Questions about dialect in Marathi
- What is the meaning of dialect in Marathi?
- Dialect in Marathi is बोली (bolī), पोटभाषा (poṭbhāṣā).
- dialect चा मराठी अर्थ काय आहे?
- Dialect: बोली (bolī), पोटभाषा (poṭbhāṣā).
- What does dialect mean in English?
- Dialect means a lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dialect (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Marathi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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