English Meaning of batti

Meaning of 'batti'

f ( H) A wick (of a lamp or candle); and, by meton., a lamp or light. 2 The tongue (point to which the light is applied) of a cracker, rocket, squib &c. 3 A tent or bougie (for a wound). 4 A half of a turban rent longitudinally: also a turban woven of a half-breadth. 5 A train of powder (to a mine). v ghala, pasara. A paper-tube filled with gunpowder supplying a number of crackers arranged along its surface. 6 A set of thatchers. It consists of three; of whom the business of one is to lay down the leaves, of another to overlay them with the grass, of the third to lay along the bamboo slip and to tie and bind the whole. batti lago (kamala -gharala -sampattila -rojagarala- &c.) A common form of execration, Burn him! batti lavane To light the torch of discord. nticya poti mpathi mbatti lagali May all her offspring and bre- thren speedily come to the torch (i.e. soon obtain the funeral torch--soon die)!

Meaning of बत्ती

f ( H) A wick (of a lamp or candle); and, by meton., a lamp or light. 2 The tongue (point to which the light is applied) of a cracker, rocket, squib &c. 3 A tent or bougie (for a wound). 4 A half of a turban rent longitudinally: also a turban woven of a half-breadth. 5 A train of powder (to a mine). v घाल, पसर. A paper-tube filled with gunpowder supplying a number of crackers arranged along its surface. 6 A set of thatchers. It consists of three; of whom the business of one is to lay down the leaves, of another to overlay them with the grass, of the third to lay along the bamboo slip and to tie and bind the whole. बत्ती लागो (कामाला -घराला -संपत्तीला -रोजगाराला- &c.) A common form of execration, Burn him! बत्ती लावणें To light the torch of discord. तिच्या पोटीं पाठीं बत्ती लागली May all her offspring and bre- thren speedily come to the torch (i.e. soon obtain the funeral torch--soon die)!

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