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dhaba

dhaba noun: a roadside restaurant in South Asia.

Noun

dhaba (plural dhabas)

  1. (South-Asia) A roadside restaurant in South Asia.
  2. (broadly) Any restaurant that serves Punjabi food.

dhaba meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Punjabi

dhaba in Hindi

dhaba; locally-owned restaurant; small roadside eatery
ढाबा ḍhābā

dhaba in Marathi

dhaba; locally-owned restaurant; small roadside eatery
धाबा dhābā

dhaba in Malayalam

dhaba
ഢാബ ḍhāba

dhaba in Punjabi

dhaba
ਢਾਬਾ ḍhābā
More languagesFewer languages
dhaba in Assamese
ধাবা dhaba

Forms of dhaba

pluraldhabas

Origin of dhaba

From Hindi ढाबा (ḍhābā).

Questions about dhaba

What does dhaba mean?
Dhaba means a roadside restaurant in South Asia.
What is dhaba in Hindi?
Dhaba in Hindi is ढाबा (ḍhābā). See Dhaba meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dhaba?
Dhaba is a noun.
What is the plural of dhaba?
The plural of dhaba is dhabas.

Words near dhaba in the dictionary

  1. Dhaandhoo
  2. dhaanto
  3. Dhaarana
  4. Dhaasanac
  5. Dhaatu
  6. dhaba
  7. dhabas
  8. dhabba
  9. dhabbas
  10. dhabiha
  11. dhabihah

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dhaba (page history and authors); ढाबा (Hindi) (page history and authors); धाबा (Marathi) (page history and authors); ഢാബ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ਢਾਬਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ধাবা (Assamese) (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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