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pehelwan

pehelwan noun: a wrestler.

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
    • The Dom Raja's home even had its very own wrestling pit, where only decades ago, pehelwans threw each other to the ground and played for glory.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 294

Forms of pehelwan

pluralpehelwans
alternative formpahlwan
alternative formpehlwan

Origin of pehelwan

From Hindi पहलवान (pahalvān).

Questions about pehelwan

What does pehelwan mean?
Pehelwan means a wrestler.
What part of speech is pehelwan?
Pehelwan is a noun.
What is the plural of pehelwan?
The plural of pehelwan is pehelwans.

Words near pehelwan in the dictionary

  1. pegzilarginase
  2. peh
  3. Peh-king
  4. peh-oe-ji
  5. peh-tsai
  6. pehelwan
  7. pehelwans
  8. Pehl
  9. pehlevan
  10. pehlevans
  11. pehlevi

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