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Maruti

Maruti comes from Hindi मारुति ‘a car manufactured by Maruti Suzuki’, and goes back to Sanskrit मारुति.

  1. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEमारुति
  2. Hindic. 1500–presentsame formmāruti‘a car manufactured by Maruti Suzuki’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2002Maruti

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEमारुति
  2. Hindic. 1500–presentsame formmāruti‘a car manufactured by Maruti Suzuki’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2002Maruti

Earliest quotation: 2002, Amaresh Misra, The Minister's Wife: “The doors of all the Marutis flew open.”

Today it means

noun A car manufactured by the company Maruti Suzuki.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Sanskrit मारुति / Maruti