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shikarri

shikarri is the dated form of shikari.

Meaning of shikari

Noun

shikari (plural shikaris)

  1. A hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent.
    • ‘And if thou art not a shikarri, where didst thou learn thy knowledge of the tiger-folk?’ said he. ‘No tracker could have done better.’1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 196
  2. (historical) A shooting-boat used in the Kashmir lakes.

Forms of shikarri

pluralshikarris

Questions about shikarri

What is shikarri the dated form of?
Shikarri is the dated form of shikari.

Words near shikarri in the dictionary

  1. shikaring
  2. shikaris
  3. shikarred
  4. shikarree
  5. shikarrees
  6. shikarri
  7. shikarring
  8. shikarris
  9. shikars
  10. Shikasta Nasta'liq
  11. shikepoke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shikarri (page history and authors); shikari (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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