Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive
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   1) AK (p. 9) ...669):- Ak-rā jhoprā, Phok-rā bār, Bajra-rā rotī, Mot'h-rā dāl: Dekho Rājā terī Mārwār. (For houses hurdles of madār, For hedges heaps of withered thorn, Millet for bread, horse-peas for pulse: Such is thy kingdom, Raja of Mārwār!)
   2) BAJRA (p. 51) BAJRA, s. H. bājrā and bājrī (Penicillaria spicata, Willden.). One of the tall millets forming a dry crop in many parts of India. Forbes calls it bahjeree (Or. Mem. ii. 406; [2nd ed. i. 167), and bajeree (i. 23)]. 1844. — "The ground (at Maharajpore) was generally covered with...
   3) BUDGEROW (p. 120) ...and B. bajrā; Shakespear gives H. bajrā and bajra, with an improbable suggestion of derivation from bajar, 'hard or heavy.' Among Blochmann's extracts from Mahommedan accounts of the conquest of Assam we find, in a detail of Mīr Jumla's fleet in his expedition of 1662, mention of 4 bajras (J. As. Soc. Ben...
   4) KHURREEF (p. 482) ...The obverse crop is rubbee (q.v.). [1809. — "Three weeks have not elapsed since the Kureef crop, which consists of Bajru (see BAJRA), Jooar (see JOWAUR), several smaller kinds of grain, and cotton, was cleared from off the fields, and the...