pehelwan

English[edit]

pehelwan (plural pehelwans)

(India) A wrestler.
- 2001, Ashok Singh, The Snake God, page 258:
  Take these two pehelwans and take sticks and kill all the snakes in this compound. I don't want to see any of these creatures alive on my lands.
- 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 294:
  The Dom Raja's home even had its very own wrestling pit, where only decades ago, pehelwans threw each other to the ground and played for glory.