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Mewati, n. and a.|mɛˈwɑːtɪ|
Also Mewatti.
[Native name (see def.).]
A. n.
1. An Indian people native to Mewat, a region south of Delhi and now part of Rajasthan; a member of this people, spec. one professing Islam. Cf. Meo.
2. The language of this people, a dialect of Rajasthani.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1788J. Rennell Mem. Map Hindoostan p. xlix, Of the state of the internal government of Hindoostan, a judgment may be formed, by the punishment inflicted on the Mewatti, or the Banditti tribe, which inhabit the hilly tract, within 25 miles of Delhi. 1824J. Malcolm Mem. Cent. India (ed. 2) II. xiv. 174 The Mewatties, a well-known Mahomedan tribe in Hindustan, have long resorted to Central India. 1832J. Tod Ann. Rajast'han II. 393 Gírdhur..with a small but select band hunted the Mewatti leader down, and.. slew him in single combat. 1855H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms 340/2 Mewátí,..a tribe of Rajputs inhabiting the province of Mewat, now known as Mucheri, and formerly notorious for their turbulent and predatory character. 1880P. W. Powlett Rajputana Gazetteer III. 170 These repeated expeditions against the Mewáttis did not render them quiet. Ibid. 171 Rewári is referred to as being in the hands of a Mewátti chief. Ibid. 174 Humayun..conciliated them..by causing his minister Bairám Khan to marry a younger daughter of the same Mewátti. 1896W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Provinces & Oudh III. 493 Common proverbs..mean that, in dealing with a Mewâti, you had better kick or abuse him before you do business with him. 1901[see Jaipur]. 1908G. A. Grierson Ling. Survey India IX. ii. 44 Mēwātī is, properly speaking, the language of Mewat, the country of the Mēōs, but it covers a larger tract than this. It is the language of the whole of the State of Alwar, of which only a portion is Mewat. Ibid. 45, I am not acquainted with any literary work in the Mēwātī dialect. 1908Imperial Gazetteer India XVII. 313 The Muhammadan Meos call themselves Mewātīs. 1914H. A. Rose Gloss. Tribes & Castes Punjab & N.-W. Frontier Province III. 80 In the Muhammadan historians the Meos appear to be unknown by that name, but the Mewátis were notorious throughout the Muhammadan period. 1957[see Jaipur]. 1958B. N. Prasad in V. K. Narasimhan et al. Lang. India 90 The New or Modern Indo-Aryan languages... Rājasthānī (Mārwarī, Mewāri, Mālawi, Jaipuri and Mewatī). 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 395/1 Rajasthani's 20 dialects are classified into four main groups: the northeastern Mewati [etc.]. |
