moti catching some rays
One of the neighborhood dogs I feed, Moti (meaning big or fat), laying out in the sun - and as is usual for the street animals here, in the middle of the road! Somehow they manage to not get run over too often or too seriously, but I still get worried when they lounge like this in unsafe places!
posted by slaint at 7:42 PM
6 Comments:
Hello Slaint...
Welcome back. "Moti" for a dog's name means pearl, "moti" in Hindi. It is a a very common Hindi, "Bambaiya" dog name.
Ohh...!! Mumbai! Its so sooo hot and muggy in Boston right now.
I miss Mumbai..!! And Slaint, you help us.
Thank you.
And BTW, I am a strict regular of MDP. I have commented on the snaps before as usual - "Anonymous".
:-)
he looks like a sweet dog
Actually, 'moti' also does mean "fat woman", pronounced with a hard "T" (difficult to convey in writing). However, I agree that as a pet's name, the usage is 'moti' with a soft "T", meaning "Pearl".
Hi names suits him well. Seems like you feed him pretty well. ;)
i didn't name him, but was told by others that his name Moti (perhaps spelled wrong?) meant fat or big. He's a pretty big dog compared to many of Mumbai's street dogs!
What the first poster said was right.
The meaning differs based on how you pronounce it. In the case of the dog, Moti is pronounced "moe-thi", where "thi" would be like "thi-mble", but with a little bit less emphasis on the 'th'.
Moti, when pronounced as "moe-tea" means fat.
I suppose you must have asked them what "Moe-tea" means, to which everyone would have said "fat". Fun, huh? :)
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