bahadur
/ˌbɑːhəˈdʊə
/noun Indian
1A great man.Here are these people sweeping the floor, filling containers with water, picking up cow dung, but when they return home, they revert to their roles as sahib bahadurs and memsahibs....
- In times like the present, the stories of nawabs, zamindars and khan bahadurs may not have the kind of appeal that they once had.
- As I am not a bahadur I just accompanied the bahadurs to the bus-stand and bought a ticket to Manali while they were pataoing the bus-driver for srinagar to take them along in the cabin.
1.1An honorific title, originally given to officers in British India: Bahadur Shah...
- After the demolition of Babri Mosque, students of Lal bahadur Shastri Academy, the future administrators etc. celebrated the event with unusual gusto.
- Guru Tegh bahadur, the ninth Guru, bought some land in Ropar district and established the city of Anandpur, since he was also not welcomed at Golden Temple which was under the control of Sodhis.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (born 1904) succeeded Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister of India in 1964.
Origin
From Urdu and Persian bahādur, from Mongolian.
- punch in (or out)
- punchless
- punchline
- punch list
- Punch-man
- punch-mark
- punch-marked
- punch one's ticket
- punch-out
- punch-packed
- punch-packing
- punch plate
- punch press
- punch-prop
- punch-pull
- punch-pulling
- Punch show
- punch someone's lights out
- Punch's show
- Punch's voice
- punch the (time) clock
- punch ticket
- punch-up
- Punch voice
- punchwork