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sherwanis

sherwanis is the plural of sherwani.

Meaning of sherwani

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

Questions about sherwanis

What is sherwanis the plural of?
Sherwanis is the plural of sherwani.

Words near sherwanis in the dictionary

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

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