कचेरी

See also: कचरा

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani کَچَہْرِی (kacahrī) / कचहरी (kacahrī).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kə.t͡ɕe.ɾi/, [kə.t͡ɕe.ɾiː]

Noun

कचेरी • (kacerī) f

office
Synonyms: ऑफिस (ŏphis), कार्यालय (kāryālay)
a hall of audience
a town-house
a court for the administration of public business. Applied by meton. to the people assembled and to the business proceeding

Descendants

→ Kannada: ಕಛೇರಿ (kachēri)
- → English: cutcherry
→ Malayalam: കച്ചേരി (kaccēri)
→ Tamil: கச்சேரி (kaccēri)
→ Telugu: కచేరీ (kacērī)

References

Berntsen Date, Molesworth, Tulpule/Feldhaus Vaze (2022) “कचेरी”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Marathi Dictionaries]
दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “कचेरी”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 540.

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kr̥tyagharikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 178

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