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sewali

sewali noun: night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).

Noun

sewali

  1. (India) Night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
    • His attention was drawn by the sewali flowers blooming with small, soft, white petals, fluttering in the mild air.2000, Kamaleswar Sarma, Raghunath Choudhury, page 5
    • Near the goxai ghar there was a sewali in full bloom. A few flowers fell from the tree.2002, Snigdhamalati Neog, transl., A handful of sand, page 108

sewali meaning in Assamese

sewali in Assamese

sewali, night-flowering jasmine, coral jasmine, night jasmine
শেৱালি xewali

Origin of sewali

Borrowed from Assamese শেৱালি (xewali).

Questions about sewali

What does sewali mean?
Sewali means night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
What is sewali in Assamese?
Sewali in Assamese is শেৱালি (xewali). See Sewali meaning in Assamese.
What part of speech is sewali?
Sewali is a noun.

Words near sewali in the dictionary

  1. sewage
  2. sewage fungus
  3. sewage plant
  4. sewage plants
  5. sewages
  6. sewali
  7. Sewalick Hills
  8. Sewall
  9. sewan
  10. Sewanee
  11. sewanin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sewali (page history and authors); শেৱালি (Assamese) (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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