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biradari

biradari is the alternative form of baradari.

Meaning of baradari

Noun (1)

baradari (plural baradaris)

  1. (South-Asia) A boxy building with twelve doors designed for free flow of air and excellent acoustics; similar buildings and pavilions with similar sets of openings.
  2. (South-Asia, historical) A palanquin with twelve openings, including entryways and windows; similar palanquins with similar sets of openings.
    • Bárádari is a kind of open palkí, and is so called from having twelve doors or openings.1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, page 81

Noun (2)

baradari (countable and uncountable, plural baradaris)

  1. (South-Asia) A system of social strata that dictate political alliances among South Asian Muslims.

Forms of biradari

pluralbiradaris

Questions about biradari

What is biradari the alternative form of?
Biradari is the alternative form of baradari.

Words near biradari in the dictionary

  1. biraciality
  2. biracially
  3. biracials
  4. birack
  5. biracks
  6. biradari
  7. biradaris
  8. biraderi
  9. biradial
  10. biradiate
  11. biradiated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biradari (page history and authors); baradari (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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