jawar
jawar noun: sorghum, Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
Noun
jawar (usually uncountable, plural jawars)
- Sorghum, Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
- Sharankumar Limbale also recalls vividly […] how his grandmother collected remnants of undigested jowar grains from cow dung, washed and then dried them in the sun.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 93
jawar meaning in Tamil and Marathi
jawar in Tamil
- கோளம்
jawar in Marathi
- jawar, sorghum
- ज्वारी jvārī
Forms of jawar
| plural | jawars |
|---|---|
| alternative form | jawari |
| alternative form | jooar |
| alternative form | jowar |
| alternative form | jowari |
| alternative form | juari |
| alternative form | jowarry |
| alternative form | jowaur |
| alternative form | jowarree |
| alternative form | juarree |
Origin of jawar
From Hindi जवार (javār).
Questions about jawar
- What does jawar mean?
- Jawar means sorghum, Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
- What is jawar in Tamil?
- Jawar in Tamil is கோளம். See Jawar meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is jawar?
- Jawar is a noun.
- What is the plural of jawar?
- The plural of jawar is jawars.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jawar (page history and authors); jawar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ज्वारी (Marathi) (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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