angarkha

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng-

Sanskrit अङ्ग॑ (áṅga)

Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕 (aṃga)

Prakrit 𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rakkha)

Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha)

Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā)bor.

English angarkha

Borrowed from Hindi अँगरखा (aṅgarkhā), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (aṃgarakkha), from 𑀅𑀁𑀕 (aṃga) + 𑀭𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rakkha).

Noun

angarkha (plural angarkhas)

1. (India) A traditional outer upper garment worn by men, tied using strings in place of buttons.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 37:

     I didn't need her to take my shoes off and then my turban and the angarkha.

   • 2012, Frank Trentmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, page 148:

     And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world.

   • 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45:

     He wore a pagdi embroidered with gold and silver thread on his head, a tight-fitting intricately patterned angarkha, and tight pajamas buttoned at the ankles.

Translations

Translations

• Bengali: আংরাখা (bn) (aṅrakha)
• Dhivehi: އަނގަރަކާ (aⁿgarakā)
• Gujarati: અંગરખો (aṅgarkho)
• Hindi: अँगरखा (hi) m (aṅgarkhā)
• Marathi: अंगरखा m (aṅgarkhā)
• Odia: ଅଙ୍ଗରଖା (aṅgarakhā)
• Punjabi: ਅੰਗਰਖਾ (pa) m (aṅgarkhā)
• Urdu: انگرکھا m