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sherwani

sherwani noun: a knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan.

Noun

sherwani (plural sherwanis)

  1. A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan.
    • The band that leads the procession wears red-and-green sherwanis.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 40
    • Friom a distance, Komal secretly observes Lakshaya, dressed in a fitted maroon sherwani, carefully mount the decorated animal.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 283

sherwani meaning in Punjabi

sherwani in Punjabi

sherwani
ਸ਼ੇਰਵਾਨੀ śervānī

Forms of sherwani

pluralsherwanis

Origin of sherwani

Borrowed from Urdu شیروانی (śervānī)/Hindi शेरवानी (śervānī), from the name of a town in Persia.

Questions about sherwani

What does sherwani mean?
Sherwani means a knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan.
What is sherwani in Punjabi?
Sherwani in Punjabi is ਸ਼ੇਰਵਾਨੀ (śervānī). See Sherwani meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is sherwani?
Sherwani is a noun.
What is the plural of sherwani?
The plural of sherwani is sherwanis.

Words near sherwani in the dictionary

  1. sherut
  2. sheruts
  3. Shervan
  4. Shervington
  5. Sherwan
  6. sherwani
  7. sherwanis
  8. Sherwen
  9. Sherwens
  10. Sherwin
  11. Sherwins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sherwani (page history and authors); ਸ਼ੇਰਵਾਨੀ (Punjabi) (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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