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pulwah

pulwah is the alternative form of pulwar.

Meaning of pulwar

Noun

pulwar (plural pulwars)

  1. A keelless riverboat used in northeast India and Bangladesh, chiefly to carry cargo.
    • When at sail, the Halder budgerow always towed another, smaller boat in its wake, a pulwar […]2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 40

Forms of pulwah

pluralpulwahs

Questions about pulwah

What is pulwah the alternative form of?
Pulwah is the alternative form of pulwar.

Words near pulwah in the dictionary

  1. pulviplume
  2. pulviplumes
  3. pulvisculus
  4. pulwaar
  5. pulwaars
  6. pulwah
  7. pulwahs
  8. Pulwama
  9. Pulwama District
  10. pulwar
  11. pulwars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulwah (page history and authors); pulwar (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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