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1. Adivasi, n. and adj. View full entry 1941
...A member of any of the aboriginal tribal peoples living in India before the arrival of the Aryans in the second millennium b.c.; (also) a descendant of these peoples. Cf....
2. amrita, adj. View full entry 1810
...Immortal, ambrosial. (See Notes to Southey's Kehama xxiv. (1850) 626.)...
3. antarafacial, adj. View full entry 1965
...Of a pericyclic reaction undergone by a molecule: involving the formation of two new bonds on opposite faces of the molecule. Cf. suprafacial2....
4. Aryan | Arian, adj. and n. View full entry 1839
...Applied by some to the great division or family of languages, which includes Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, and Slavonic, with their modern representatives; also called Indo-European, ...
5. Ayurvedic, adj. View full entry 1917
...Of or pertaining to the traditional Hindu science of medicine....
6. bahuvrihi, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1846
...Of a word: composed of an adjective and a substantive so as to form, principally, a possessive adjective, like the word bahuvrihi itself; also gen., forming a compound...
7. Bangla, n. and adj. View full entry 1955
...The Bengali language....
8. Bengali | Bengalee, adj. and n. View full entry 1848
...Of or belonging to Bengal....
9. Bhotia, n. and adj. View full entry 1824
...A native or inhabitant of Bhutan (see Bhutanese); the language(s) of this region. Also: (one of) a breed of pony native to the Himalayas....
10. bindaas, adj. View full entry 1981
...Bold; independent; admired; fashionable....
11. Brahmic, adj. View full entry 1852
...Pertaining to the Indian society known as the Brahmo Somāj, or to the older one called Brahma Sabhā....
12. chota, adj. View full entry 1814
...Small; younger, junior; spec. applied to a ‘peg’ of whisky....
13. Cingalese, adj. and n. View full entry 1613
... Of Ceylon. A native of Ceylon; the language of Ceylon....
14. corah, adj. and n. View full entry 1833
...Plain, undyed: applied to Indian silk; ‘an Indian pattern silk handkerchief’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade1858). corah printer...
15. cushty, adj. (and adv.) View full entry 1929
...Good, wonderful; fine; brilliant. Freq. as a general term of approval or agreement. Also as ...
16. cutcha, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1834
...Imperfect, slight, temporary, makeshift (opp. to pucka, solid, substantial, permanent, etc.). As = Sun-dried brick, dried mud, as a material....
17. Devanagari, n. and adj. View full entry 1781
...The distinctive name of the formal alphabet in which, throughout northern, western and central India, Kashmir, and Nepal, the Sanskrit has, for some centuries, been written, as are also the vernacular languages...
18. Dogra, n. and adj. View full entry 1834
...A member of a chiefly Hindu people predominating in the Jammu district of the north-west Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir; these people collectively. Also: the language of this people; = ...
19. Dogri, n. and adj. View full entry 1875
...The Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Dogra people of the north-west Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. See Dogra...
20. Dravidian, adj. and n. View full entry 1856
...Of or pertaining to a non-Aryan people found in southern India and Sri Lanka, or their languages....
