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begah

begah is the obsolete form of bigha.

Meaning of bigha

Noun

bigha (plural bighas)

  1. (Bangladesh, India) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
    • Colonel Watson had, within a brick wall, at least four hundred begahs of land, which the East India Company had executed a grant of to him to construct docks […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 208

Forms of begah

pluralbegahs

Questions about begah

What is begah the obsolete form of?
Begah is the obsolete form of bigha.

Words near begah in the dictionary

  1. begabled
  2. begabs
  3. begad
  4. begadkefat
  5. begadkephat
  6. begah
  7. Begaho
  8. begahs
  9. Begajo Norte
  10. Begajo Sur
  11. Begala

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Adapted from Wiktionary: begah (page history and authors); bigha (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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