kangri
/ˈkaŋɡri
/noun Indian
A small pot filled with lighted charcoal, used to transport fire or (in Kashmir) carried close to the body as a means of keeping warm.I also pick up two kangris, clay lamps that Kashmiris fill with glowing charcoals and hold against their bodies, inside their feyrans, in the cold of winter....
- The Pandit women welcomed us; they offered us their kangris to warm up but as they spoke, the bitterness poured out.
- It was a mob of over hundred Kashmiri men, all of them dressed in pheren and carrying kangris in their hands.
Origin
From Hindi kāṁgṛī.
- the deuce to pay
- the Devil
- the devil can quote scripture for his purpose
- the devil finds work for idle hands to do
- the devil looks after his own
- the devil's dozen
- the devil's in the detail
- the devil's own ——
- the devil to pay
- the die is cast
- the Digest
- (the) dinkum oil
- the Directory
- the dirty end of the stick
- the dismals
- the dismal science
- the Dispersion
- the distaff side
- the Divine
- the Divinity
- the dizzy heights
- the dog's bollocks
- the dogs of war
- the Dolomites
- the Downs