burra-khana
English
Alternative forms
- burra khana
Etymology
From Hindi बड़ा खाना (baṛā khānā, “big dinner”), from बड़ा (baṛā, “big”) + खाना (khānā, “food, dinner”).
Noun
burra-khana (plural burra-khanas)
- (India) A great entertainment or feast.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 14:
- I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delanes' burra-khana.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 47:
- ‘Wasn't a man in town who could put on a burra-khana like he did.’
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 14:
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