kathiawari
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from or relating to the Kathiawar peninsula in Gujarat, India.
name
A dialect of the Gujarati language.
noun
A horse of an Indian breed originating in the Kathiawar peninsula.
noun
A member of the Patidar caste from the Kathiawar peninsula.
Example Sentences
- "In Khacha defensive actions and feudal wars great use was made of Kathiawaris."
- "The Kathiawari is thought to have originated from stock brought to India by Alexander the Great."
- "The Kathiawari and Marwari horses are the only two pure Indian breeds."
- "Rebuking me gently, a friend has remarked that these days I have been doing an injustice to Kathiawaris: I always describe them as men given to too much talking."
- "The cutting and polishing was mainly in hands of Kathiawaris, Kanbi Patels, who were originally farmers from Saurashtra, an area which often suffered from drought."
- "Indian communities, the Palanpuris and the Marwaris, controlled the business end of the diamond industry, while the cutting and polishing was done by a lower caste of agricultural labor contractors, the Kathiawaris."