Divehi (Mahl)
names 12objects 10ISO 639-3 div
Spoken in the Maldives, and Minicoy (Maliku) in Lakshadweep, which speaks the same language and keeps the same calendar.
vernacular 3 · borrowed 9
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| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| ތަރި thari | 'Star' as a word | — | borrowed |
| ކޭތަ keytha | Eclipses | Maniku glosses it 'eclipse, occultation' and derives it from Sinhala ketu, the dragon's tail or descending node. | borrowed |
| ގިނިހިލަ gini-hila | Meteors and shooting stars | 'fire-stone', from gini 'spark, scintilla, flash' Maniku gives it at the headword gini 'spark', with gini-kandhu 'meteorite' beside it. | vernacular |
| މިއަހެލިއަ miahelia | Orion | The fifth nakaiy of the south-west monsoon. Maniku's star list is λ, φ¹, Aldebaran and φ² in Orion, and he notes the form is sometimes written miaheli. | borrowed |
| މުލަ mula | Scorpius | THE FIRST nakaiy of the north-east monsoon, and so the hinge of the Divehi year: the point at which the wind reverses and the sailing season changes. Maniku names ε, μ, ξ, η, θ, ι, χ, υ and λ (Shaula) in Scorpius. | borrowed |
| ރޯނު roanu | The Hyades | The fourth nakaiy of the south-west monsoon; Maniku names α, θ, γ, δ and ε Tauri. | borrowed |
| ކެތި kethi | The Pleiades | The third nakaiy of the south-west monsoon. | borrowed |
| އިރު iru | The Sun | Maniku glosses it 'sun, daystar' and gives the archaic form އިރަ ira at its own headword. | borrowed |
| އަވިހި avihi | The lunar mansions as a system | Maniku: this nakaiy is no longer used in the system; in the archaic system it was a variable interpolation to bring the calendar to the correct timing with the sun. | vernacular |
| ނަކަތް nakaiy | The lunar mansions as a system | Maniku gives every one of the twenty-seven asterisms its own headword, and each is defined not by its place in the moon's circuit but by its number within a monsoon: eighteen nakaiy of the hulhangu or south-west monsoon, running from Assidha (Aśvinī) to Dhosha (Jyeṣṭhā), then nine of the iruvai or north-east monsoon, from Mula (Mūla) to Reyva (Revatī), 'the ninth and the last'. Each entry names the stars in Bayer designations. | vernacular |
| ރޭވަ reyva | The lunar mansions as a system | Maniku calls it 'the ninth and the last nakaiy of the north-east monsoon' — the end of the Divehi year as well as of the asterism list. He names ξ and ζ Piscium. | borrowed |
| ގަހާތަރި gahaathari | The pole star | 'the planet-star' Maniku analyses it as Sinhala gaha 'planet' (Sanskrit graha) plus Divehi thari 'star', and gives the archaic form ގަހި gahi, 'pole star', at the next headword. | borrowed |
Sources
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. thari, p. 233 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. keytha, p. 144 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. gini-hila, p. 100 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. miahelia, p. 174 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. mula, p. 181 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. roanu, p. 210 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. kethi, p. 143 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. iru, p. 126 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. avihi, p. 21 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. nakaiy, p. 187 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. reyva, p. 208 link
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku, A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Special Volume XLIV (Colombo, 2000), s.v. gahaathari, p. 95 link