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bimaru

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bi-maru
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, the poorest and least developed regions in India.

Indian usage; Derogatory

noun

a person from said states.

Indian usage; Derogatory

Etymology

Word-play on Hindi बीमार (bīmār, “sick, ill”), coined by Indian demographer Ashish Bose in the 1980s.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: बीमार

Usage

Inflected Forms

BIMARUs (plural)

Questions

What does bimaru mean?
Initialism of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, the poorest and least developed regions in India.
Where does bimaru come from?
It is traced to Hindi.

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