You Dowlath?
By: Ram N
Tags: Chennai, Chennai Daily Photo, Chennai Daily Pictures, DailyPhoto Chennai, Dowlath Towers, Kilpauk, Nikon D40X, RamaswamyN, ramaswamyn.com, Taylors Road
Category: Communication, Language, Place
Dacalti, Dowlath, Ambeal, Appalika, Vootanda etc are some of the Madras Baashai words. When one spots a “Dowlath Towers” in Taylors Road, the Family Name “Dowlath” is forgotten and the Madras Baashai meaning of “Are you an Upper Class citizen” in colloquial terms comes to the mind.
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‘Dowlat’ means wealth in Hindi / Urdu… This word in Madras Bhaashai is news to me!
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‘Dowlat’ means wealth in Hindi / Urdu. This word in Madras Bhaashai is news to me!
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Many Madras Bhasai words are actually Urdu, Telugu, Sanskrit words – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Bashai
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How do you use it in a sentence?
Ram : “Nee periya Dowlath’a” could be a phrase in Madras Baashai.
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