Re: [nukkad] Fwd: Bihari word for "mother"

["aryaone" <>]

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Harshal inquired:
< Do Bihari, Avadhi, Gurumukhi etc. use some other word? It would
> be interesting if the formal usage differs from the colloquial. > 

To which Ninadji replied:
> I guess, it's a "RABRI DEVI" or "RABDI DEVI".> 

By transliteration built on Moslem roots superstructured on an older
Hindu socio-ethnic matrix, the words read:

Rabb di Devi -
Rabb being synonymous with Allah by Arabic usage
Devi being synonymous with a divine personage by Hindu usage.

By contrast other tribes sects gotras in India call her just devi, with 
a tangential connotation, as though unwilling to deify the mother. 
This could be because there are as many as 7 major mother forms of 
goddess and more minor forms who are outright legitimate Deities.

Interestingly, Hindu folk thus will stop short of calling mother Devi, 
as in a godform, while a Moslem oriented culture does just that in
no unequivocal terms. This, when associating anyone else in God's
person brings instant murder. The sin is called "shirkat", off taking
from sharikat, more familiar as the often heard "hamari khushi me
shareek hona."

The rabri form is almost certainly a corruptiontion by usage, because then
it makes the mother taste like "rabri", boiled and creamed milk, which
she probably is, to her husband.

Interestingly, one never know which language fell from which womb.
Look at the very common word "Devi", used all over India.

The masculine is Dev, in many dialects "Deo", as in pati-deo. Hear it
well and by and large you pick up the form ending in the vowel "o".
Other forms are Deva and so on.

Now the De-o has an uncanny parallel in Diu of the Latin based people
prior to Martin Luther. The same word crops up in our "Damman-Diu"
left behind by Portuguese, rabid Catholics.

For certain Deo came first, and bifurcated to become deva and devi here,
in the verdant valleys of Indus and Brahammaputra, and Diu there,
by the Elbe and Rhine.

Notice there is no LATIN equivalent for Devi. They like their God 
pro-phallic, pendulous and penis-endowed. 

So we have 2 cultures mouthing the same God in similar terms, who would 
not sit at the same table or marry each other's daughters.

Unless they have a common long lost daughter somewhere. 

Maybe in Rabbi Devi?

Arya.




























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