dharavi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A central suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Example Sentences
- "Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process."
- "Indian studios provide media services to Western costumers, and foreign money has been poured into shared partnership studios working in the Mumbai film industry. ‘It’s Raining Dollars in ‘B-Town’, trumpeted India Today headlines, and international involvement has only increased. In 2008, Danny Boyle’s cinematic adaptation of Slumdog Millionaire was shot in Bombay’s Dharavi slum and attracted worldwide attention."
Etymology
Transliteration of Marathi धारावी (dhārāvī).