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maaveh

maaveh noun: the police.

Noun

maaveh pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang, British Pakistani) the police.
    • For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature, retrieved 20 Apr 2024

Origin of maaveh

Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari مان٘ویں (māṉveṉ), plural form of مان٘واں (māṉvāṉ, “mother's young brother”).

Questions about maaveh

What does maaveh mean?
Maaveh means the police.
What part of speech is maaveh?
Maaveh is a noun.

Words near maaveh in the dictionary

  1. maatje
  2. maatjes
  3. maats
  4. Maattu Pongal
  5. maava
  6. maaveh
  7. Maawi
  8. Maay
  9. Maayon
  10. mab
  11. Maba

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