Word.ws English Dictionary

lehenga

lehenga is the alternative form of lehnga.

Meaning of lehnga

Noun

lehnga (plural lehngas)

  1. (South-Asia) A long formal or ceremonial skirt worn by Indian women, usually with a choli (short blouse).
    • For most of the ceremony, Naima was sitting on the stage wearing an elaborate maroon lehnga that was so heavy it had taken the both of us to lift the box when it first arrived from the designer.2023, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, The Centre, Picador, page 294

Forms of lehenga

plurallehengas

Questions about lehenga

What is lehenga the alternative form of?
Lehenga is the alternative form of lehnga.

Words near lehenga in the dictionary

  1. lehavdil
  2. lehavdl
  3. lehayim
  4. lehendakari
  5. lehendakaris
  6. lehenga
  7. lehengas
  8. Lehew
  9. Lehews
  10. Lehi
  11. Lehigh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lehenga (page history and authors); lehnga (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lehenga.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lehenga. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.