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say it: mah-hah-bur-AH-tuh
mahabharata is a noun meaning "(Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families". It is pronounced /mɑhɑbɚˈɑtə/ — mah-hah-bur-AH-tuh. It carries one recorded sense.
(Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families
Hinduism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mahabharata come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.