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Definition of Bahut
1. Noun. (obsolete) A portable coffer or chest with a rounded lid covered in leather, garnished with nails, once used for the transport of clothes or other personal luggage. It was the original portmanteau. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete architecture) A dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bahut
1. a fancy chest [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bahut
Literary usage of Bahut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary Hindústání & English to the New Testament and Psalms by Cotton Mather (1861)
"bahut din, long time— bahut hi barh jan a, to multiply greatly. ... bahut tarah
ki, greatly, lit. of many kinds. — bahut tarah se greatly, lit. in many ways ..."
2. Introduction to the Hindustání Language: In Three Parts, Viz., Grammar by William Yates (1855)
"Us bij ko bagh men bo. Us ke dant men dard hai. Bazar men bahut ... Yih bahut
khub kishmish hai. Us k& bahut bara makan hai. Yih kamra khub raushan hai. ..."
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