haramzada

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani حرام زادہ / हरामज़ादा (harāmzādā), from Classical Persian حرام‌زاده (harām-zāda).

Noun

haramzada (plural haramzadas)

  1. (South Asia, vulgar) A bastard.
    • 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 31:
      He had told her, too, how, sick and shaken with the fever their negligence had bred, crippled by the loss of his pet clerk, and savagely angry at the desolation in his charge, he had once damned the collective eyes of his "intelligent local board" for a set of haramzadas.

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