Oxford Collocations Dictionary Definitions on the go Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. (old-fashioned, sometimes offensive) of or connected with any of the indigenous (= original) peoples of America, especially Nor...
‘Doolally tap’ is a phrase that has made its way into the English language from India. The Oxford English dictionary defines ‘Doolally tap’ as ‘Temporarily deranged or feeble-minded’. Typically, when ‘Doolally tap’ is used in Britain, the ‘tap’ is used meaning a knock on the hea...
As Yule & Burnell say in their classic A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases ["Hobson-Jobson," Curzon Press, 1886, 1985, p. 433]: It is not easy, if it be possible, to find a truly native (i.e. Hindu) name for the whole country which we call India; but the...
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Thetawaifwas a member of a courtesan class.Kamal’s Oxford Advanced Illustrated Dictionarydefinestawaif(तवायफ़) as “prostitute, harlot” (Kapoor, undated). This definition reflects common misconceptions and usage, but it is very far from the complex historical reality. They were ...
Rushdie is not alone in this prejudice for the most venerable Oxford English Dictionary itself announces “Hinduism is the polytheistic religion of the Hindus”. In fact, Indian traditions always have freely allowed questioning whether there is any God at all, let alone whether there is one God...
In tandem, languages with more synthetic properties (more inflected forms of the same dictionary entries and less reliance on discrete function words to show grammatical properties) display lower constants, and hence greater lexical diversity [18]. However, the three constants should not simply be ...
The term ‘ta’ first appeared in a fourth-century dictionary, marking its earliest usage. Previously, it was synonymous with futu 浮圖or 浮屠, fodou 浮都, and fotu 佛圖, terms that originally denoted Buddha in East Han documents and also served as the transliteration for Buddha in Sanskrit...
The term Hinduism became familiar as a designator of religious ideas and practices distinctive toIndiawith the publication of books such asHinduism(1877) by Sir Monier Monier-Williams, the notable Oxford scholar and author of an influential Sanskrit dictionary. Initially it was an outsiders’ term,...