Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tastes...

While we all have descended to just 'two' words to describe tastes... "Yuck' if it is bad and 'Yum' if it is good, we did have words to describe 'tastes' once upon a time before the 'yuck' and 'yum' took over universally!

Here I bring to you the common 'Tastes' as described in Thanjavur Marathi.....

AMBAT......SOUR


KADU ....... BITTER


THIKHAT........ SPICY


KHAARAT........ TOO SALTY


THURAT ........ ASTRINGENT


GULCHEET ....... SWEET


SAPPAK....... BLAND

KHAVATHA...... IS THE ITCHY SENSE IN THROAT After eating foods that cause allergic sensation


2 comments:

  1. Hi, Why have you stopped writing new posts ? I recently came across your blog and found it interesting. I am marathi from mumbai and just came to know about thanjavur marathi people. Keep posting. Happy to meet marathi people from thanjavur.

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  2. In SM, insipid is sapak, but many people simply say, aLaNi, which actually means, saltless.
    guLchat-mat exists in SM and means sweetish. But in DM, we say, guLcheet for sweet and guLmat for sweetish!

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