Word history
Wiktionary records कोठारी (koṭhārī) as a Hindi surname. The entry traces koṭhārī through a Prakrit form to Sanskrit koṣṭhāgārika and explicitly gives storekeeper as the older sense. The internal consonant group changes along that route. कोठारी is the later word form, with a final long vowel. The occupational definition concerns the word itself, without attributing ownership or employment to a particular household.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
Literal dictionary sense
koṭhārī: Storekeeper.
Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
Native-script forms
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
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