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jowar

jowar is the alternative 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 jowar

What is jowar the alternative form of?
Jowar is the alternative form of jawar.

Words near jowar in the dictionary

  1. Jovinianist
  2. Jovinianists
  3. Jovon
  4. jow
  5. Jowan
  6. jowar
  7. jowari
  8. jowarree
  9. jowarry
  10. jowaur
  11. jowder

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