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dak bungalow

dak bungalow noun: a posthouse of the old Indian postal service (dak), used as lodging by itinerant British officials and other travellers and as a make-shift courthouse in rural areas.

Noun

dak bungalow (plural dak bungalows)

  1. (India, historical) A posthouse of the old Indian postal service (dak), used as lodging by itinerant British officials and other travellers and as a make-shift courthouse in rural areas.
    • Care was taken not to interfere with Europeans, for the twofold reason, that they seldom carried about with them anything more valuable than their firearms, and that they would certainly be missed, and close inquiries instituted to account for their disappearance. Besides, there was little chance...1875 December 25, "Some Bad Old Indian Customs", part II,, in Charles Dickens, Jr. (editor), All the Year Round, number 369, page 298
    • There is a good sarái or inn for native travellers, and a dák bangalow or resting-place for Europeans.1878, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., "Badnur"

dak bungalow meaning in Tamil and Gujarati

dak bungalow in Tamil

பயணிகள் தங்குமிடம்

dak bungalow in Gujarati

dak bungalow
ડાકબંગલો ḍākbaṅglo

Examples of dak bungalow in a sentence

  • The Dak Bungalow of Chandrapore was below the average, and certainly servantless.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 229:
  • On the veranda of a Dak bungalow two men attired in khaki shirts and sweaters, sat smoking.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147:

Forms of dak bungalow

pluraldak bungalows
alternative formdâk-bungalow
alternative formdāk bangalow
alternative formdakbungalow
alternative formdawk bungalow

Origin of dak bungalow

From Hindi डाक बंगला (ḍāk baṅglā) under influence from Gujarati ડાકબંગલો (ḍākbaṅglo).

Questions about dak bungalow

What does dak bungalow mean?
Dak bungalow means a posthouse of the old Indian postal service (dak), used as lodging by itinerant British officials and other travellers and as a make-shift courthouse in rural areas.
What is dak bungalow in Tamil?
Dak bungalow in Tamil is பயணிகள் தங்குமிடம். See Dak bungalow meaning in Tamil.
How do you use dak bungalow in a sentence?
The Dak Bungalow of Chandrapore was below the average, and certainly servantless.
What part of speech is dak bungalow?
Dak bungalow is a noun.
What is the plural of dak bungalow?
The plural of dak bungalow is dak bungalows.

Words near dak bungalow in the dictionary

  1. dajreja
  2. dajrejas
  3. dajres
  4. Daju
  5. dak
  6. dak bungalow
  7. dak bungalows
  8. Dak.
  9. Dakahlia
  10. Dakar
  11. Dakarois

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dak bungalow (page history and authors); dak bungalow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ડાકબંગલો (Gujarati) (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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