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Ugadi

Ugadi comes from Telugu ఉగాది ‘Ugadi, the annual celebration of the New Year…’.

  1. Telugumodernఉగాదిugādi‘Ugadi, the annual celebration of the New Year according to the lunar Hindu calendar in…’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1962Ugadi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Telugumodernఉగాదిugādi‘Ugadi, the annual celebration of the New Year according to the lunar Hindu calendar in…’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1962Ugadi

Earliest quotation: 1962, India. Office of the Registrar General, Census of India: “(a) At the time of Ugadi what are the…”

Today it means

name the annual celebration of the New Year according to the lunar Hindu calendar in multiple Indian cultures, particularly Telugu and Kannada traditions

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

Etymograph / Telugu ఉగాది / Ugadi