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chalan

chalan is the alternative form of challan.

Meaning of challan

Noun

challan (plural challans or challan)

  1. (South-Asia) An official form or other kind of document, piece of paperwork, citation etc.
    • Mathur sighed that things had come to such a pass that no honest businessman could get even a challan form without first handing out a few rupees.2002, Romen Basu, Breach of Faith

See all 2 meanings of challan

Forms of chalan

Noun
pluralchalans
pluralchalan
Verb
third-person singular presentchalans
present participlechalaning
present participlechalanning
past participlechalaned
pastchalaned
past participlechalanned
pastchalanned

Phrases with chalan

Questions about chalan

What is chalan the alternative form of?
Chalan is the alternative form of challan.

Words near chalan in the dictionary

  1. Chalais
  2. Chalamaniac
  3. Chalamaniacs
  4. Chalamba
  5. Chalampa
  6. chalan
  7. Chalan Beel
  8. chalance
  9. chalaned
  10. chalaning
  11. chalanned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chalan (page history and authors); challan (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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