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dokha

dokha noun: a form of uncured, minimally processed tobacco from the Middle East.

Noun

dokha (uncountable)

  1. A form of uncured, minimally processed tobacco from the Middle East.

Proper noun capitalized: Dokha

Dokha

  1. A former village in Ganden, Mêdog, Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • A documentary aired by the state broadcaster, CCTV, showed how a Chinese official went to Dokha, a village in Tibet, to persuade residents to move to a new village called Duolonggang, 10 miles from Arunachal Pradesh. / He encountered some resistance. Tenzin, a lay Buddhist practitioner, insisted...2024 August 8, Muyi Xiao, Agnes Chang, “China’s Great Wall of Villages”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2024

Origin of dokha

From Arabic دَوْخَة (dawḵa, “dizziness”), in reference to the effects of its high nicotine content.

Questions about dokha

What does dokha mean?
Dokha means a form of uncured, minimally processed tobacco from the Middle East.
What part of speech is dokha?
Dokha can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near dokha in the dictionary

  1. dokda
  2. dokdas
  3. doke
  4. dokes
  5. Dokeses
  6. dokha
  7. dokhma
  8. dokhmas
  9. dokhona
  10. dokhonas
  11. doki

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