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berkendoss

berkendoss is the alternative form of burkundaz.

Meaning of burkundaz

Noun

burkundaz (plural burkundazes)

  1. (India, historical) An armed guard or watchman.
    • But unlike such forts as Chunar and Buxar […], the Carcanna was anything but a picturesque ruin: its turrets housed squads of sentries, and its parapets were manned by a great number of peons and burkundazes.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 90

Forms of berkendoss

pluralberkendosses

Questions about berkendoss

What is berkendoss the alternative form of?
Berkendoss is the alternative form of burkundaz.

Words near berkendoss in the dictionary

  1. Berkeleyites
  2. berkelium
  3. Berkelland
  4. berkemeyer
  5. berkemeyers
  6. berkendoss
  7. berkendosses
  8. Berker
  9. Berkey
  10. Berkeys
  11. Berkhamsted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: berkendoss (page history and authors); burkundaz (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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