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pahlwan

pahlwan is the alternative form of pehelwan.

Meaning of pehelwan

Noun

pehelwan (plural pehelwans)

  1. (India) A wrestler.
    • Take these two pehelwans and take sticks and kill all the snakes in this compound. I don't want to see any of these creatures alive on my lands.2001, Ashok Singh, The Snake God, page 258

Forms of pahlwan

pluralpahlwans

Questions about pahlwan

What is pahlwan the alternative form of?
Pahlwan is the alternative form of pehelwan.

Words near pahlwan in the dictionary

  1. Pahlavist
  2. Pahlavists
  3. Pahlawi
  4. Pahlevi
  5. Pahls
  6. pahlwan
  7. pahlwans
  8. pahmi
  9. pahmis
  10. paho
  11. pahoehoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pahlwan (page history and authors); pehelwan (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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