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jooar

jooar is the archaic form of jawar.

Meaning of jawar

Noun

jawar (usually uncountable, plural jawars)

  1. (India, usually) 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

Questions about jooar

What is jooar the archaic form of?
Jooar is the archaic form of jawar.

Words near jooar in the dictionary

  1. Jonval turbine
  2. Jonval turbines
  3. Jonvals
  4. joo
  5. jooal
  6. jooar
  7. JOOC
  8. Jooish
  9. jooj
  10. joojed
  11. joojes

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