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haramzada

haramzada noun: a bastard.

Noun

haramzada (plural haramzadas)

  1. (South-Asia, vulgar) A bastard.
    • He had told her, too, how, sick and shaken with the fever their negligence had bred, crippled by the loss of his pet clerk, and savagely angry at the desolation in his charge, he had once damned the collective eyes of his "intelligent local board" for a set of haramzadas.1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part II.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC...

Forms of haramzada

pluralharamzadas
alternative formharamzadeh

Origin of haramzada

Borrowed from Hindustani حرام زادہ / हरामज़ादा (harāmzādā), from Classical Persian حرامزاده (harām-zāda).

Questions about haramzada

What does haramzada mean?
Haramzada means a bastard.
What part of speech is haramzada?
Haramzada is a noun.
What is the plural of haramzada?
The plural of haramzada is haramzadas.

Words near haramzada in the dictionary

  1. haramizes
  2. haramizing
  3. haramness
  4. harams
  5. haramyids
  6. haramzada
  7. haramzadas
  8. haramzadeh
  9. haramzadehs
  10. Haran
  11. harang

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