angarkha
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional outer upper garment worn by men, tied using strings in place of buttons.
Indian usage
Example Sentences
- "I didn't need her to take my shoes off and then my turban and the angarkha."
- "And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world."
- "He wore a pagdi embroidered with gold and silver thread on his head, a tight-fitting intricately patterned angarkha, and tight pajamas buttoned at the ankles."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hángas Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hángas Sanskrit अङ्ग॑ (áṅga) Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕 (aṃga) Prakrit 𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rakkha) Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha) Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā)bor. English angarkha Borrowed from Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha), from 𑀅𑀁𑀕 (aṃga) + 𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rakkha).