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belna

belna noun: a press or mill, particularly one used for grinding sugar cane.

Noun

belna (plural belnas)

  1. (India, North) A press or mill, particularly one used for grinding sugar cane.
  2. (Caribbean, India, North) A rolling pin, typically used for flattening dough for roti.
    • Belnas are multipurpose tools which can crack open nuts and some Guyanese even use it to break ice into smaller pieces.2020 August 6, Sarika Prasad, “What Do You Know About Belna and Chowki? (Traditional Cooking Tools From India)”, in Things Guyana, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024

Forms of belna

pluralbelnas

Origin of belna

Borrowed from Hindi बेलना (belnā), Punjabi ਬੇਲਣਾ (belṇā), Guyanese Creole English belna and Mauritian Creole belna. First attested in 1868.

Questions about belna

What does belna mean?
Belna means a press or mill, particularly one used for grinding sugar cane.
What part of speech is belna?
Belna is a noun.
What is the plural of belna?
The plural of belna is belnas.

Words near belna in the dictionary

  1. Belmopan
  2. Belmore
  3. Belmore River
  4. Belmores
  5. Belmullet
  6. belna
  7. Belnap
  8. Belnaps
  9. belnas
  10. Belo
  11. Belo Horizonte

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