மாஜி

Borrowed from Classical Persian ماضی (māzī), from Arabic مَاضِي (māḍī). Cognate with Gujarati માજી (mājī), Kannada ಮಾಜಿ (māji), Marathi माजी (mājī), Hindi माज़ी (māzī), and Telugu మాజీ- (mājī-).

• IPA^(key): /maːd͡ʑɪ/, [maːd͡ʑi]

மாஜி • (māji) (rare, dialectal)

1. former, previous, ex-, past

   Synonyms: முந்தின (muntiṉa), முன்னாள் (muṉṉāḷ)

   அவள் என் மாஜி காதலி

   avaḷ eṉ māji kātali

   She is my ex-lover

2. late, deceased

   Synonym: மறைந்த (maṟainta)

• University of Madras (1924–1936), “மாஜி”, in Tamil Lexicon, Madras [Chennai]: Diocesan Press
• S. Ramakrishnan (1992), “மாஜி”, in தற்காலத் தமிழ் அகராதி [Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil] (in Tamil), Madras: Cre-A Publishers, page [1]
• Miron Winslow (1862), “மாஜி”, in A comprehensive Tamil and English dictionary of high and low Tamil, Madras: P. R. Hunt
• Johann Philipp Fabricius (1779), “மாஜி”, in A Malabar and English Dictionary, Tranquebar: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Pub. House; republished as Tamil and English Dictionary, 1972