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Pahari, n. and a.|pəˈhɑːriː|
Also paharia, Pahaṛiya.
[Hind. pahāṛī (language) of the mountains, f. pahāṛ mountain.]
A. n.
a. An Indo-Iranian language group to which belong the languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas from Nepal to Chamba.
b. (Also pahareen.) A native or inhabitant of this region.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this region, its inhabitants, or the languages spoken by them.
The name was originally applied to one of the languages or dialects which formed the group (so quots. 1857, 1886).
1811, etc. [see Maler n. and a.]. 1857Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XXVI. 317 The languages included in..these two papers are..Dahi or Darhi..Dénwár..Pahi or Pahari, [etc.]. 1876[see Kashmir 1]. 1884[see Malto n.]. 1886Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 1 The Kotgarh Chaplain christened her Elizabeth, and ‘Lispeth’ is the Hill or pahari way of pronouncing it. 1887R. N. Cust Linguistic & Oriental Ess. (ser. 2) iii. 73 It is..more convenient..to treat Hindi as the unit, and then allow full room to its magnificient dialects, such as..Bagri, Pahári, [etc.]. 1901Kipling Kim iv. 93 ‘Huh! It is only a pahari’ (a hillman), said Kim over his shoulder. ‘Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?’ Ibid. 107 A pahareen—a hillwoman of Dalhousie, my mother. 1905Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/1 This particular district has been inhabited, since the British occupation, by two distinct races, the Santals and Paharias... The Paharias are a mountain race. 1908T. G. Bailey Lang. N. Himalayas iii. p. i, Of these all, except Lāhuḷī, belong to what is at present called the Western Pahāṛī language of the Northern Group of the Sanskritic Aryan Family. 1916G. A. Grierson Linguistic Survey India IX. iv. 1 The Pahāṛī languages fall into three main groups. Ibid. 2 The mass of the Aryan-speaking population of the Himalayan tract in which Pahāṛī is spoken belongs, in the West, to the Kanēt and, in the East, to the Khas caste. 1923A. Turnbull Nepali Gram. & Vocab. (ed. 3) 1 They also frequently refer to the language as ‘Pahāṛī’, or ‘Pahāṛiyā’, though, strictly speaking, it is only one of the many forms of Pahāṛī. 1943R. Godden Rungli-Rungliot 37 Monbad speaks Hindustani and Paharia. 1950Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 773/2 The hill dialects, known as Pahari, are akin to the language spoken in Rajputana. 1971Hindustan Times (New Delhi) 7 Apr. 7/3 Mr Khandalavala's books include Pahari Miniature Painting, an exhaustive survey of painting in the Punjab hills. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 676/3 Pahari painting, miniature painting and book illustration that developed in the independent states of the Himalayan foothills in India. 1974Listener 31 Jan. 136/3 The shops are run by Sikhs: the Paharis, the hill people, are not really interested. |