punkah

Meaning of punkah

noun
  1. (in India) a large cloth fan on a frame suspended from the ceiling, moved backwards and forwards by pulling on a cord.
    the punkah wallah fell asleep over his task

via Hindi from Sanskrit pakṣaka, from pakṣa ‘wing’.

Information about punkah

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of punkah is: punkahs.
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Hyphenation of punkah

punkah

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • punkah is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with punkah

khankah, tankah

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