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thumri

thumri noun: a genre of light classical north Indian music.

Noun

thumri (countable and uncountable, plural thumris)

  1. A genre of light classical north Indian music.
  2. An individual piece of music in this style.
    • Subhra Guha's "rendition of the thumri is notable for its rich technique and aesthetic appeal emanating from her immaculate use of bol."1992 May 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader
    • While the three main styles of Hindustani music have common origins and can be played on the some instruments, the dhrupad, which flourished in the 1500s, is less ornamental, more austere and serene than the khayal and the thumri, which evolved about two centuries later; the thumri is the more...1994 January 21, Ted Shen, “Lyon Leifer & Nancy Lesh”, in Chicago Reader

thumri meaning in Hindi

thumri in Hindi

thumri, a semiclassical vocal music genre of the Hindustani music tradition of North India
ठुमरी ṭhumrī

Examples of thumri in a sentence

  • Like many dancers, Elokeshi had a fine voice and could sing exquisite thumris […]2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 82:
  • These courtesans sang beautiful tappas and thumris much to the delight of the citizens.2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 146

Forms of thumri

pluralthumris

Origin of thumri

From Hindi ठुमरी (ṭhumrī).

Questions about thumri

What does thumri mean?
Thumri means a genre of light classical north Indian music.
What is thumri in Hindi?
Thumri in Hindi is ठुमरी (ṭhumrī). See Thumri meaning in Hindi.
How do you use thumri in a sentence?
Like many dancers, Elokeshi had a fine voice and could sing exquisite thumris […]
What part of speech is thumri?
Thumri is a noun.
What is the plural of thumri?
The plural of thumri is thumris.

Words near thumri in the dictionary

  1. thumpings
  2. thumpity
  3. thumps
  4. thumpt
  5. thumpy
  6. thumri
  7. thumris
  8. Thums
  9. Thun
  10. Thunaojam
  11. Thunar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumri (page history and authors); ठुमरी (Hindi) (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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