nullah

English

Alternative forms

• nala
• nalla
• nallah
• nulla

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali নালা (nala), Hindi नाला (nālā), from Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī).

Noun

nullah (plural nullahs)

1. (chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater. [from 17th c.]
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 82:

     It was just after the exit from a bridge; the animal had probably come up out of the nullah.

Further reading

• nullah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia