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Urdu
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
کَجْرا • (kajrā) m (Hindi spelling कजरा)
- lampblack
- kohl
- Synonym: کاجَل (kājal)
Declension
Further reading
- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “کجرا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “کجرا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 896
- “کجرا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- “کجرا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.