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dhol

dhol noun: a type of drum from India.

Noun

dhol (plural dhols)

  1. A type of drum from India.
    • On the TV news men in pink and saffron turbans are at the airport, jigging frantically to the music of dhols.2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 106

dhol meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

dhol in Hindi

dhol
ढोल ḍhol

dhol in Tamil

ஆமம்

dhol in Urdu

dhol, drum
ڈھول ḍhol

dhol in Bengali

dhol, drum
ঢোল ḍhōl
More languagesFewer languages
dhol in Sanskrit
ढोल ḍhola
dhol in Assamese
ঢোল dhül

Forms of dhol

pluraldhols

Origin of dhol

From Hindi ढोल (ḍhol), from Sanskrit ढोल (ḍhola).

Words formed from dhol

Questions about dhol

What does dhol mean?
Dhol means a type of drum from India.
What is dhol in Hindi?
Dhol in Hindi is ढोल (ḍhol). See Dhol meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dhol?
Dhol is a noun.
What is the plural of dhol?
The plural of dhol is dhols.

Words near dhol in the dictionary

  1. Dhofari
  2. Dhofari Arabic
  3. Dhofaris
  4. dhokla
  5. dhoklas
  6. dhol
  7. dholak
  8. dholaki
  9. dholakis
  10. dholaks
  11. dhole

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dhol (page history and authors); ढोल (Hindi) (page history and authors); dhol (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ڈھول (Urdu) (page history and authors); ঢোল (Bengali) (page history and authors); ढोल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); ঢোল (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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