What is the meaning of Mugger?
A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.
↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000
↑ Asko Parpola (2011), “Crocodile in the Indus script and iconography”, in Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia, following Bloch (1930), Turner (1966), and Burrow and Emeneau (1984), the Indo-Aryan etymon derives from the Proto-Dravidian root. Compare Kannada [script needed] (negal), [script needed] (negale, “alligator”), Tulu [script needed] (negaḷu, “alligator”), [script needed] (negaru, “a sea-animal, the vehicle of Varuṇa”), Telugu [script needed] (negaḍu, “a polypus or marine animal which entangles swimmers”). Parpola suggests the Proto-Dravidian word might derive from the root *neka- (“to rise, fly, jump, leap”) (DEDR 3730), referring to the crocodile's habit of jumping to catch its victim.
↑ Ganesan, Naga (2011), “A Dravidian Etymology for Makara–Crocodile”, in Prof. V. I. Subramanian Commemoration Volume, Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala: Int. School of Dravidian Linguistics. Compare Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Sindhi [script needed] (magar), Panjabi and Kashmiri [script needed] (magar-macch), Bengali and Nepali [script needed] (makar), Telugu [script needed] (makaramu), Tamil [script needed] (makaram) (in Sangam literature). The transformation from *mokara > [script needed] (makara) occurs because the short vowel phoneme -o- in mokara is not present in Indo-Aryan languages. South Dravidian shows [script needed] (mosale), [script needed] (mosali) (< *mokaray), and Tamil [script needed] (mutalai) (< motalai < mosale) from the same verbal root with -r- > -l- alternation.
↑ N. Ganesan (2018), “Some K-Initial Dravidian Loan Words in Sanskrit: Preliminary Observations on the Indus Language”, in International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, volume 47, number 2, pages 1-18 notes that "dictionaries trace 'mugger' ultimately to be of Dravidian origin" and provides this as part of evidence that "the most important words for 'crocodile' in South Asian languages have a Dravidian etymology."
comparative form of mug: more mug
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