bajra

From Hindi बाजरा (bājrā). Compare bajri from Gujarati બાજરી (bājrī).

bajra (uncountable)

1. (North India) Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).
   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 94:

     When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.

• bajre, bajri

From Hindi बजरा (bajrā).

bajra (plural bajras)

1. Alternative form of budgerow.
   • 1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:

     ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “bajra”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 50.

• Rajab

baj +‎ -ra

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒjrɒ]
• Hyphenation: baj‧ra

bajra

1. sublative singular of baj

Borrowed from Sanskrit वज्र (vajra, “thunderbolt”).

bajra

1. thunderbolt
2. diamond
3. a kind of weapon

• braja

• → Javanese: ꦧꦿꦗ (braja) (learned)