An Indian English and Hindi word for a natural spring or small waterfall — a place where water emerges from the ground or cascades down a hillside. Used in both everyday description and in place names across the subcontinent. The word carries a pleasant, evocative quality and appears in poetry and literature as well as in geographic naming.
The trekking trail wound past a small jharna where hikers stopped to fill their bottles.
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(India) A spring of water.
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