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dewanny

dewanny is the alternative form of dewani.

Meaning of dewani

Noun

dewani (plural dewanis)

  1. The role or office of dewan.
    • He had fought for the British in wars which led to the 1765 grant to the British of the diwani of Bengal, the right to collect taxes and decide civil cases.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 34

Forms of dewanny

pluraldewannies

Questions about dewanny

What is dewanny the alternative form of?
Dewanny is the alternative form of dewani.

Words near dewanny in the dictionary

  1. dewani
  2. dewanis
  3. dewaniya
  4. dewaniyas
  5. dewannies
  6. dewanny
  7. dewans
  8. dewanship
  9. dewanships
  10. dewar
  11. Dewar flask

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dewanny (page history and authors); dewani (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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