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jauhar

jauhar noun: the mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors.

Noun

jauhar (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors.

jauhar meaning in Gujarati

jauhar in Gujarati

jauhar
જૌહર jauhar

Forms of jauhar

alternative formjohar
alternative formjuhar

Questions about jauhar

What does jauhar mean?
Jauhar means the mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors.
What is jauhar in Gujarati?
Jauhar in Gujarati is જૌહર (jauhar). See Jauhar meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is jauhar?
Jauhar is a noun.

Words near jauhar in the dictionary

  1. jau gok
  2. Jauch
  3. Jauchs
  4. Jaudon
  5. Jaudons
  6. jauhar
  7. jaulingite
  8. jaum
  9. jaumpaun
  10. jaumpauns
  11. jaums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jauhar (page history and authors); જૌહર (Gujarati) (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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