(India) Boy; young male servant, boy dancer, bondsman.
(India) Boy; young male servant, boy dancer, bondsman.
At the foot of the veranda a chokra lay on his back in the sun, pulling the punkah rope with his heel and shading his face with a broad strip of banana leaf.
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(India) A young maidservant.
An Indian colloquial term for a young girl or female domestic helper, widely used across Hindi-speaking regions. In everyday speech it can refer affectionately to a young woman or informally to a housemaid. The word carries the casual, familiar register of South Asian household conversation and appears frequently in Bollywood dialogue and urban slang.
(India, obsolete) Small; younger.
(US, regional) A young man employed to carry out chores.
(India, historical) A servant, whether domestic, military or civil.