Definition of Bihari

1. Noun. The Indic language spoken in Bihar (and by some people in Pakistan and Bangladesh).

Generic synonyms: Sanskrit, Sanskritic Language

Definition of Bihari

1. Proper noun. A group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Bihar and the surrounding states in India. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bihari

Big Pharma
Big Q
Big Rip
Big Sioux River
Big Smoke
Big Sur
Bigelow's ligament
Bigelow's septum
Bigfoot
Bigfoots
Bighorn River
Bight of Benin
Bignonia capreolata
Bignoniaceae
Bihar
Bihari (current term)
Bihu
Bikini
Bikol
Bilbao
Bilbaoan
Bilbaoans
Bilbo
Bildungsroman
Bildungsromane
Bildungsromans
Bilhah
Bill
Bill's manoeuvre
Bill Clinton

Literary usage of Bihari

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Bihari (properly Bihari), the name of the most western of the four forms of speech ... Bihari " means the language of the province of " Bihar," and to a ..."

2. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"... Understanding and faith, Augustine, Anselm— Monotheism alone religion proper—The course, affirmative, negative — China, India, Colebrooke, Rus bihari ..."

3. Trübner's Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages by Trübner (1882)
"Catalogue of Bihari Books, sold by Messrs. ... SEVEN GRAMMARS OF THE DIALECTS AND SUB-DIALECTS OF the Bihari Language Spoken in the Province of Bihar, ..."

4. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society by Gypsy Lore Society (1889)
"This last is in both Gypsy and Bihari a compound tense, ... The compound is in India peculiar to Bihari, and is only used in Bhoj'purl or the Dialect spoken ..."

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