How the word Bombay originated? Is it a progression of Bon Bay (French) or Mahamayi (Sanskrit) or Mumbadevi (M
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The appellation Mumbai is an eponym, etymologically derived from Mumba or Maha-Amba— the name of the Hindu goddess Mumbadevi, and Aai — mother in Marathi. In the 16th century, the Portuguese named the area Bom Baia (Good Bay), later corrupted to Bomaím or Bombaim, by which it is still known in Portuguese. After the British gained possession, it was anglicised to Bombay, although it was known as Mumbai or Mambai to Marathi and Gujarati-speakers, and as Bambai in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian. The name was officially changed to Mumbai in 1995.
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Never say Namaste. It's welcoming or greeting message.\n\nYou can say either of the following\n\n\nalvida\nmai chalti hoon (nasal "n" as in french)\nmai jaati hoon\nfir milenge
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you indian friend  is partially right. he is telling you as the word will be pronounced in sanskrit or hindi.  it has really nothing to do with regional differences.\n\njustfriend above is also explained it correctly that indian words generally not requiere to put the vowel at the end but the english litereature has decided to do it. \n\nthe reason is that even if we write ram in english it is again going to be mispronounced. people will speak it someting like "raim". and in english they often pronounce last letter almost 1/4 where as in sanskrit it is pronounced 100%.\n\nIn real these vowels are NOT pronounced. may be they thought ram is confusing for they had that word already in english then went on doing it. they spelt and changed many words.\n\n i never understand why they should call ganga as ganges or need to spell merath as meeruit.\n\n a at the end for hindi/sanskrit means you have to pronounce it clearly. but it is not emphasised as much as in word lama.(laamaa)\n\n   many times these days you will see hindi words spelt with aa. we know it is not correct according to english grammer. but it explains how the word will be pronounced. \nrama is pronounced raama.\n\ndharma is with no extra emphasis on a in either sound "dh" or "ma". yoga is also prnounced more like yogaa in western tradition. that is not exactly correct way.\n\n   in sanskrit the last letter may or may not be pronounced as a whole letter. mostly the m sound at the end is half and without an "a" sound in sanskrit. many times it is not m but n.  \n\nhindi follows almost all rules of sanskrit grammer rules about pronounciation and grammer. hindi uses all the sandhi rules of sanskrit as well as samaas. \n\n but minus that half n or m sound at the end. it is a clearly spoken m but without emphasis on a. though hindi follows most of the for it uses same script dev nagari.\n\n  thus sanskrit brahman is just brahm in hindi. aatman  aatma and so on. hindi uses dhatu or original form of sanskrit words. without its different forms. basically in sanskrit dhatu is elementry word. then it keep chnging according to its uses with a system of roop(form). there are 7 roops. total 27 ways a word can change.\n\n   south indians often use only m for dot used at the top of sanskrit letters. you will find that southern books often spell sanskrit as samskrit or even as samskrut (in maraathee). but they often add that extra m or n in the end like in sanskrit. eg:\nnarsinh(a)  sanskrit/hindi\nnarsimhan  south indian languages like tamil.\n\n   south indian scripts are often similar and based on nagari but their pronounciation is different.\n\n  in any case present western pronounciation of yoga, dharma etc is wrong. but many anglisised indians now pronounce it in the same way.\n\nadded:\nJAG B is partially right too. actually in nagari there is concept of half a letter and full letter. in sanskrit in atman last n is half but in rama it is full letter. so he is refering to that rule.\n\nbut it is  realy difficult to decide which way is correct.
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The name Morisseau was originally derived from the early Christian given name Mauritius, which itself comes from the Phoenician word mauharim, meaning eastern.
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I guess you are referring to the language of Bangladesh as well as the state of West Bengal in India, which is Bengali. Variant pronunciations could end up being heard as "bangooli".
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HEY LINGUIST, PORTUGUESE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN GOA! I have friends who speak it on a daily basis at home. The practice has reduced greatly in recent times. Old timers who were educated before 1961 had it as a subject in school.
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Helen,\n\nIt is "Ma"\n\nIt's ranked # 12 on this list....it also has a pronounciation, I listened to it, and it sounds just like it looks:\n\nhttp://www.bengalitranslator.net/ENGLISH_WORDS_PHRASES_INTO%20BENGALI/index.html
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i live in India but i've never heard the word. Where in India did u hear tht? Or perhaps it was "fundoo" which kinda means "cool"
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AMAN \n "Trustworthy" \n Gender: Primarily Female \n Origin: African\n(Also means "Peace" in Hindi)\n\nGo to Babynames.com for more name details!
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"Boo" is another form of sweetheart.  I don't know where it came from, but I didn't hear it until I went down south.
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It was not discovered.....people from different countries wanted to have a common language so they started this English...they took some words from Sanskrit...some from Greek and some from latin and now they call it has english....\n\nSince it was very easy to speak every one accepted this langauge....
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its a surname in india.\n\noh and it also means mustard in hindi.\n\nin some parts it also means opinion.
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Parijanik? I don't know but I'm guessing an Indian name. Hope I'm close =)
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I think it is a Hindi word, meaning JOYFUL or PLEASURABLE etc.
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The name India is derived from the Old Persian version of Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the river Indus; see Origin of India's name
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I'm not sure if is Indian \nbut almost every country has a nick name\nlike french are called gallos,Spanish,iberos,Americans Yankees,etc,etc,.\nboricua comes from BORINQUEN which is the second name of PUERTO RICO
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It's bull. It comes from English's proto-Germanic root language, and many Northern European languages have similar words.