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nihari

nihari noun: a South Asian stew of slow-cooked beef or lamb with bone marrow.

Noun

nihari (uncountable)

  1. A South Asian stew of slow-cooked beef or lamb with bone marrow.
    • Today we’re having slow-cooked lamb nihari, sag aloo, lentil dal, pilau rice, green salad and seekh kebab.2015 July 6, Helen Pidd, “Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox?”, in The Guardian

nihari meaning in Punjabi

nihari in Punjabi

nihari
ਨਿਹਾਰੀ nihārī

Origin of nihari

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi निहारी (nihārī), नहारी (nahārī) / Urdu نَہَارِی (nahārī)), from Classical Persian نهاری (nahārī, “breakfast”), from Arabic نهار (nahār, “daytime, day”).

Questions about nihari

What does nihari mean?
Nihari means a South Asian stew of slow-cooked beef or lamb with bone marrow.
What is nihari in Punjabi?
Nihari in Punjabi is ਨਿਹਾਰੀ (nihārī). See Nihari meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is nihari?
Nihari is a noun.

Words near nihari in the dictionary

  1. NIH
  2. Nihal
  3. Nihali
  4. Nihang
  5. Nihangs
  6. nihari
  7. Niharika
  8. Nihart
  9. Niharts
  10. nihil
  11. nihil album

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nihari (page history and authors); ਨਿਹਾਰੀ (Punjabi) (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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