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  • By a coincidence that is entirely explainable, the Arabic word Baqar, meaning cow or ox, gets fudged into the word Bakra, originating from the Sanskrit varkar.

    Kafila 2009

  • Cyrus Broacha shot to fame with MTV's candid camera show "Bakra".

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Cyrus Broacha shot to fame with MTV's candid camera show "Bakra".

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The handset is powered by 3D surround sound and has other features such as 8 GB expandable memory, dual SIM facility, 1.3 mega pixel camera, et al. It also comes with preloaded content from MTV featuring videos, ringtones, wallpapers from hit shows like "Bakra", "Semi Girebal" and "Roadies".

    The Economic Times 2009

  • In the Quran, this Eid, mostly known as "Bakr Eid" in the majority Muslim Indian sub-continent -- if you count Muslim numbers in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh together -- comes from Bakra, the goat, the animal of choice for slaughter.

    Parvez Sharma: Bullets in Bollywood: No Eid For Me 2009

  • Her favorite word is ergo, and she claims that she ` s currently living in Bakra, Western Sahara.

    CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006 2006

  • He had -- so he thought -- wiped out the hostile army from its high-born general, Bakra of Akif, down to the lowliest mercenary foot soldier.

    Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

  • It was the same mount that General Bakra had ridden -- he who lay somewhere on the field, sprawled in a puddle of blood.

    Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

  • All the native world about him knew that a demon had taken possession of the Eater-of-men; he was usually inhabited by an evil spirit, but this time the demon of Bakra who, as everybody knows, tears the vitals with hot claws, making the victim to have fits, to foam at the mouth, to be quite mad, had entered the white man.

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • Opinion was divided as to whether this white man was the one who had been arrested and sent to the coast with Corporal Inyira or whether he was a brother; some said that the magic leaf which the messenger had brought was the soul of the white man, others maintained that it was the incarnation of Bakra, which explained why the Eater-of-Men was so entirely possessed.

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

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