Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mahawat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ma-hawat
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of mahout.

Etymology

PIE word *méǵh₂s Borrowed from Hindi महावत (mahāvat, “elephant keeper”), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “elephant keeper; high official; king’s minister”), from महा (mahā, “great”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) + मात्र (mātra, “measure; quantity”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)).

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: *meh₁-, महावत, महामात्र, *méǵh₂s

Inflected Forms

mahawats (plural)

Synonyms

mahout

Questions

What does mahawat mean?: Synonym of mahout.
Where does mahawat come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

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