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mofussil

UK/məʊˈfʌs(ə)l/

mofussil noun: originally, the regions of India outside the three East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.

Noun

mofussil (countable and uncountable, plural mofussils)

  1. (India) Originally, the regions of India outside the three East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
    • Such are the means by which the Mofussil, “up-country,” or provincial Anglo-Indian will reach his station or district, and unless he is going to Bombay or Calcutta, which are practically the two entrance doors of the Empire, with Madras for a back door, his first experience of Anglo-Indian life...1904, Herbert Compton, Indian Life in Town and Country
    • His natural language was crass and of the mofussil, yet he could pepper it with smart turns of phrase on occasion.2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 3

mofussil meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

mofussil in Tamil

நாட்டுப்புறப் பகுதி, நாட்டுப்புறப்பகுதி, வெளியூர்ப் பகுதி, வெளியூர்ப்பகுதி

mofussil in Bengali

mofussil
মফস্বল mophośśol

mofussil in Kannada

ನಗರ ಪರಿಸರ, ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶ, ನಗರ ತೀರದ ಹಳ್ಳಿಗಾಡು

Forms of mofussil

pluralmofussils

Origin of mofussil

Borrowed from Bengali মফস্বল (mophośśol), from Classical Persian مفصل (mufassal), from Arabic مُفَصَّل (mufaṣṣal), passive participle of فَصَّلَ (faṣṣala, “to divide, classify”).

Words formed from mofussil

Questions about mofussil

What does mofussil mean?
Mofussil means originally, the regions of India outside the three East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
What is mofussil in Tamil?
Mofussil in Tamil is நாட்டுப்புறப் பகுதி, நாட்டுப்புறப்பகுதி, வெளியூர்ப் பகுதி. See Mofussil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mofussil?
Mofussil is a noun.
How do you pronounce mofussil?
Mofussil is pronounced /məʊˈfʌs(ə)l/ (UK).
What is the plural of mofussil?
The plural of mofussil is mofussils.

Words near mofussil in the dictionary

  1. mofongos
  2. mofos
  3. MOFs
  4. Moftin
  5. MOFU
  6. mofussil
  7. Mofussilite
  8. Mofussilites
  9. mofussils
  10. mog
  11. moga

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mofussil (page history and authors); mofussil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মফস্বল (Bengali) (page history and authors); mofussil (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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