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tarai

tarai is the alternative form of terai.

Meaning of terai

Noun

terai (plural terais)

  1. A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains.
    • Emotions running high, clashes between protesters and police led to the death of at least 40 people in Terai since August – including 11 police officials, one of them dragged out of an ambulance and beaten to death.2015 September 20, Sugam Pokharel, Salim Essaid, “More than half a century in the making: Nepal enshrines new constitution”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2022
  2. A terai hat.

Forms of tarai

pluraltarais

Questions about tarai

What is tarai the alternative form of?
Tarai is the alternative form of terai.

Words near tarai in the dictionary

  1. Tarahumara
  2. Tarahumaran
  3. Tarahumarans
  4. Tarahumare
  5. Tarahumari
  6. tarai
  7. taraire
  8. taraires
  9. tarairi
  10. tarairis
  11. tarais

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarai (page history and authors); terai (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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