Ma*ra"thi (?), Mah*rat"ta (?),
n.
A Sanskritic language of western India,
prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas
and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the
13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and
a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the
Gujarati.
© Webster 1913.