(historical, India, Nepal, Pakistan) A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.
(historical, India, Nepal, Pakistan) A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.
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(India, historical) A water carrier .
A historical Indian term for a water carrier — a person whose occupation was transporting and distributing water, typically using a goatskin bag (mashk) to deliver water to households, worksites, or military camps. An essential occupation in pre-piped-water South Asia. Immortalized in Rudyard Kipling's poem 'Gunga Din,' whose title character is a bahisti.
(India, historical) A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by two oxen.
(India, obsolete) A woman or wife.
An Anglo-Indian term from Urdu/Hindi 'bibi' (lady, wife, mistress), used in colonial India to refer to a woman of rank or to a European man's Indian companion or common-law wife. The relationship known as 'bibighar' (women's quarters) was common among East India Company employees before the arrival of large numbers of British women in the 19th century.