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1. abhisheka, n. View full entry 1834
...In India: any of various ceremonies involving a ritual washing or anointing. ...
2. abkari, n. View full entry 1790
...In India: the production and sale of distilled alcoholic drinks; the duty levied on this. Also used allusively with reference to the system of managing the sale of alcohol solely through certain...
3. aiya, n. View full entry 1913
...In Sri Lanka: an older brother. Hence more generally: any older male relative or acquaintance. Freq. as a form of address. Also as a postmodifier with a proper noun....
4. aiyo, int. View full entry 1886
...In southern India and Sri Lanka, expressing distress, regret, or grief; ‘Oh no!’, ‘Oh dear!’...
5. akhara, n. View full entry 1832
...In India: a wrestling ring or pit; a gymnasium or outdoor exercise area....
6. ankus, n. View full entry 1886
...In India, an elephant-goad. Also attrib....
7. ashram, n. View full entry 1917
...In India, a place of religious retreat, sanctuary, or hermitage....
8. atta, n. View full entry 1860
...Wheaten flour or meal....
9. bahadur, n. View full entry 1776
...A great man, distinguished personage. Often affixed as a title to an officer's name. ...
10. bangy | banghy, n. View full entry 1789
...A yoke for carrying loads; such a yoke with its pair of baskets or boxes; hence, parcel post....
11. batta, n.2 View full entry 1680
...In Indian Banking, agio or difference in exchange; discount on coins not current, or of short weight. (Col. Yule.)...
12. bheesty | bheestie, n. View full entry 1781
...In India, the servant who supplies an establishment with water, which he carries in a skin slung on his back....
13. bhoosa, n. View full entry 1829
...Husks and broken straw, used as food for cattle. Also attrib....
14. bhut, n. View full entry 1785
...In India, a spirit; a demon or goblin....
15. bindaas, adj. View full entry 1981
...Bold; independent; admired; fashionable....
16. bobachee, n. View full entry 1810
...A male cook....
17. brinjarry, n. View full entry 1793
...A travelling grain and salt merchant of the Deccan....
18. budgerow, n. View full entry 1727
...‘A lumbering keelless barge, formerly much used by Europeans travelling on the Ganges’ (Col. Yule)....
19. ˈbuggalow, n. View full entry 1842
...‘A name commonly given on the W. coast of India to Arab vessels of the old native form’ (Yule)....
20. bund, n.1 View full entry 1813
...In India: ‘Any artificial embankment, a dam, dyke, or causeway.’ In the Anglo-Chinese ports, ‘applied specially to the embanked quay along the shore’. (Col. Yule.)...
