chhatri

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noun

An elevated dome-shaped pavilion in Indian architecture.

OriginHindi छतरी →
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Meanings

nounchhatri (plural chhatris)

plural chhatris

  1. IndiaAn elevated dome-shaped pavilion in Indian architecture.

    They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah's father through an opening in the trees.

    1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 298

Origin

  1. Hindiछतरी“umbrella, canopy”
  2. Englishchhatri

Borrowed from Hindi छतरी (chatrī, “umbrella, canopy”).

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