maaveh

M3A1A1V4E1H4

noun

the police.

Originphr مان٘ویں →
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Meanings

nounmaaveh pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyslangBritish Pakistanithe police.

    For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’

    2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature, retrieved 20 Apr 2024

Synonyms & antonyms

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police

Origin

  1. phrمان٘ویں
  2. Englishmaaveh

Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari مان٘ویں (māṉveṉ), plural form of مان٘واں (māṉvāṉ, “mother's young brother”).

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APA

maaveh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maaveh

MLA

“maaveh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maaveh. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “maaveh,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maaveh.

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