Word.ws English Dictionary

qalandar

US/ˈkæləndɚ/

qalandar noun: a wandering ascetic Sufi dervish.

Noun

qalandar (plural qalandars)

  1. A wandering ascetic Sufi dervish.

qalandar meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati

qalandar in Hindi

one of an order of dervishes
क़लंदर qalandar

qalandar in Urdu

qalandar
قلندر qalandar

qalandar in Gujarati

one of an order of dervishes
કલંદર kalandar

Forms of qalandar

pluralqalandars
alternative formcalender

Origin of qalandar

From Classical Persian قلندر (qalandar), possibly a re-borrowing through Arabic of original Persian کلندر (kalandar) "a rough, uncouth man" from Classical Persian کلند (kaland, kuland) "rough, unshaved, unsmoothed".

Words that rhyme with qalandar

Questions about qalandar

What does qalandar mean?
Qalandar means a wandering ascetic Sufi dervish.
What is qalandar in Hindi?
Qalandar in Hindi is क़लंदर (qalandar). See Qalandar meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is qalandar?
Qalandar is a noun.
How do you pronounce qalandar?
Qalandar is pronounced /ˈkæləndɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of qalandar?
The plural of qalandar is qalandars.

Words near qalandar in the dictionary

  1. Qaka
  2. qalam
  3. qalamdan
  4. qalamdans
  5. qalams
  6. qalandar
  7. qalandars
  8. Qalandia
  9. qaliya
  10. qallunaaq
  11. qallunaaqs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: qalandar (page history and authors); قلندر (Urdu) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “qalandar.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/qalandar. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.