Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An Indian military outpost.
- n. A police station, or a police jurisdiction in India.
Etymologies
- From Hindi. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Maybe there's nothing more to these letters and phone calls thana guy too shy to tell you how he feels face-to-face. ”
“JH: The title of your book is the place where all the portraits in it were taken, but615 Jefferson Avenue is clearlymore thana number on a street.”
“More thana paintball gun used to scare the deerout ofour garden.”
“He told them that he had tried to bribe the cops with fifteen thousand rupees per family, which was the going rate, but the lines at the local thana, or police station, were too long -- he was not the only jhuggi slumlord in booming Gurgaon with the same idea -- and it might make better sense for them to leave till "the games are over".”
The Huffington Post: Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
“Clint Patterson, a senior director in the Microsoft Business Division, saysthat less thana million people "are paying to use Google in the enterprise," compared to 40 million users of Microsoft's online tools.”
“The land registration office was outside of Jessore City, so we drove a half hour to the proper thana (a Bangladeshi legal division, similar to a U.S. county) intending to print the documents when we arrived.”
The Huffington Post: Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Buying Land in Bangladesh
“UNITED STATESYou can't get quicker thana Cap quick fixer”
The Guardian: Authorities' anti-hooligan move causes a stir in France
“While the re-enlistmentrateof juniorofficers has steadily declined, and those resigning their commissions has steadily risen, the fate of the common "grunt" was decided by the same people who decided to legalize torture, justify unprovoked assault against a country unable to defend itself, and treat the law as nothing more thana minor inconvenience, something to be abridged or ignored altogether by using the weapon most favored by cowards and white collar thugs: the memo.”
“He is trying to do everything failing and constantly regrouping afterless thana year to come to bat again and hit a number of balls into the outfied in his second, third and forth innings.”
“The scientists published their report in the medical journal, European Neuropsychopharmacology, listing more thana dozen genes thatthe swine flu virus adversely affected.”
Can H1N1 flu virus in pregnancy change genes in the brains of the unborn?
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Humours of Old Bombay
Terms that call to mind British India.
palkee, chee-chee, dorian, Hindoo, dinghee-wallah, garee, hamal, banghy, hookah-bardar, dak, ghat, mussalchee and 133 more...
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