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English
Etymology
From Hindi बड़ा खाना (baṛā khānā, “big dinner”), from बड़ा (baṛā, “big”) + खाना (khānā, “food, dinner”).
Noun
burra-khana (plural burra-khanas)
- (India) A great entertainment or feast.
1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part II.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass., London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 18:I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delane's burra-khana.
2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 47:‘Wasn't a man in town who could put on a burra-khana like he did.’