Hindi → Marathi
Hindi → Marathi: Travel Words & Transport
12 Hindi-to-Marathi travel mappings — transport, booking, stations, hotels and directions — with the vocabulary travellers actually need in Maharashtra.
What you will learn
Twelve bridge rows from Units 14–15 covering a full journey: landscapes and directions, transport modes, booking and platforms, hotels and local transport. Each maps the Hindi phrase you know to the Marathi you will hear at a Maharashtra station or ticket counter.
Much travel vocabulary is shared — बस, टिकीट, हॉटेल — and the cardinal directions are identical: उत्तर, दक्षिण, पूर्व, पश्चिम. What changes are the transport words themselves and the spelling conventions around loanwords.
Tip: Before a trip, memorize the booking row (बुक करा, कन्फर्म, वेटिंग) and platform sentence first — timetables forgive, queues don't.
Hindi → Marathi, line by line
Word map
| Hindi | Marathi | English |
|---|---|---|
| mountain | पर्वत | |
| plateau | पठार | |
| plain | तळ | |
| river | नदी | |
| lake | सरोवर | |
| sea | समुद्र | |
| tree | झाड | |
| flower | फुले | |
| animal | प्राणी | |
| bird | पक्षी | |
| travel | प्रवास करा | |
| roam | घुमा | |
| rain | पावस | |
| heat | उन | |
| cold | हिवाळ | |
| north | उत्तर | |
| south | दक्षिण | |
| east | पूर्व | |
| west | पश्चिम | |
| train | रेल्वे | |
| bus | बस | |
| flight | विमान | |
| book | बुक करा | |
| confirm | कन्फर्म | |
| waiting | वेटिंग | |
| platform | प्लॅटफॉर्म | |
| terminal | टर्मिनल | |
| gate | गेट | |
| pleasant | सुखद | |
| tiring | थकवाने | |
| on time | वेळेवर | |
| hotel | हॉटेल | |
| lodge | लॉज | |
| dharamshala | धर्मशाला | |
| auto | ऑटो | |
| metro | मेट्रो | |
| sharing | शेअरिंग |
The good news: directions and half the nouns
उत्तर दक्षिण पूर्व पश्चिम are letter-for-letter Hindi. नदी, पठार, वेटिंग, टर्मिनल, गेट, लॉज cross over untouched. You already own half the travel page.
What actually changes
Train is रेल्वे in Marathi (though ट्रेन is universally understood, and course sentences use both). झील becomes सरोवर, पेड़ becomes झाड, जानवर becomes प्राणी. And watch the loanword spellings: Marathi writes प्लॅटफॉर्म, हॉटेल and शेअरिंग with its own conventions (ॅ and ऑ).
Common mistakes
✗ Writing प्लेटफॉर्म in Marathi context✓ प्लॅटफॉर्म with ॅ
Marathi and Hindi spell English loanwords differently — signs in Maharashtra use the ॅ convention.
✗ Asking for the झील✓ सरोवर
झील is understood by bilinguals but सरोवर is the Marathi word on maps and in speech.
Quick practice
Answer first, then open the reveal to check yourself.
1. “Train” in formal Marathi?
Answer: B. रेल्वे — रेल्वे is the Marathi word; ट्रेन is understood everywhere, and विमान is a flight.
2. Which set is identical in Hindi and Marathi?
Answer: A. North–South–East–West — उत्तर दक्षिण पूर्व पश्चिम — the directions never change.
3. Fill in the blank: प्लॅटफॉर्म नंबर ___ आहे. (Platform number five.)
पाच — From Unit 15's station sentence.
4. Translate to Marathi: “Which train goes to Mumbai?”
मुंबईला जाणारा ट्रेन कोणता? — From Unit 15 — note मुंबईला (to Mumbai) and the relative clause जाणारा.
You've bridged Hindi → Marathi.
Practice the mappings, reinforce the patterns, and speak naturally.
Common questions
How different is travel Marathi from Hindi?
Directions, bookings and stays are mostly shared; transport names and nature words shift (ट्रेन→रेल्वे, झील→सरोवर, जानवर→प्राणी), and loanwords take Marathi spellings with ॅ and ऑ.
How do you ask “which platform” in Marathi?
प्लॅटफॉर्म नंबर कोणता? — or state it: प्लॅटफॉर्म नंबर पाच आहे. The word order matches the Hindi you already know.