bajra
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Hindi बाजरा (bājrā). Compare bajri from Gujarati બાજરી (bājrī).
Noun
[edit]bajra (uncountable)
- (India) Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).
- 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 94:
- When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bajra (plural bajras)
- Alternative form of budgerow.
- 1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:
- ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.
References
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “bajra”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 50.
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[edit]Hungarian
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[edit]bajra
Old Javanese
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[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit वज्र (vajra, “thunderbolt”).
Noun
[edit]bajra
- thunderbolt
- diamond
- a kind of weapon
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