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Faringee

Faringee is the obsolete spelling of firangi.

Meaning of firangi

Noun

firangi (plural firangis or firangi)

  1. (British, India, South-Asia) A foreigner, especially a British or a white person.
    • Prem, who knew him slightly from Dehra Dun (where Dhillon had been his junior), remembers Dhillon cheerfully telling everyone that the firangi were glad to have Indians patrolling their wire. This Prem doubted.1995, Peter Ward Fay, The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945, page 109

Forms of Faringee

pluralFaringees

Questions about Faringee

What is Faringee the obsolete spelling of?
Faringee is the obsolete spelling of firangi.

Words near Faringee in the dictionary

  1. farinate
  2. Farinella
  3. Farinellas
  4. faring
  5. Faringdon
  6. Faringee
  7. Faringees
  8. farings
  9. Farington
  10. farinha
  11. farinhas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Faringee (page history and authors); firangi (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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