bajra

alternative bajre · alternative bajree · alternative bajri · alternative bajury

1. IndiaNorthuncountablePearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).

   When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.

   2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 94

plural bajras

1. alternativeAlternative form of budgerow.

   ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.

   1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi