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jawaub

jawaub is the alternative form of jawab.

Meaning of jawab

Noun

jawab (plural jawabs)

  1. (India, historical) An answer, especially a dismissal, or a woman's rejection of a marriage proposal.
  2. (India) Anything erected or planted as a symmetrical double.
    • Flanking the mausoleum […] are two symmetrically identical buildings — the mosque, which faces east, and its jawab, which faces west and provides aesthetic balance.2010, Kenneth Pletcher, The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places, page 96

Forms of jawaub

pluraljawaubs

Questions about jawaub

What is jawaub the alternative form of?
Jawaub is the alternative form of jawab.

Words near jawaub in the dictionary

  1. jawan
  2. jawans
  3. jawar
  4. jawari
  5. jawars
  6. jawaub
  7. jawaubs
  8. jawbation
  9. jawbations
  10. jawblock
  11. jawblocked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jawaub (page history and authors); jawab (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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