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bahut

[ bah-hoot, -hoot; buh-hoot, -hoot; French ba-y ]

noun

plural bahuts
  1. a medieval French chest for household goods, originally small and portable.
  2. a dwarf parapet or attic wall, especially one carrying the wall plates of a church roof.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bahut1

1830–40; < French, Old French bahu, bahuz, perhaps < Old Low Franconian *²ú²¹²µ³óô»å¾± cover, protection, equivalent to *bag- bag + *-³óô»å¾± protection, akin to hide 1, hut
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Example Sentences

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“Bahut...Oh, how do you kids say...haan, bahut cute hai? Kehta hai tumhara producer hai.â€

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A fully loaded Bureau Présidence desk is priced at just shy of $20,000, and the industrial-elegant Bahut storage unit with diamond-patterned metal sliding doors starts at $16,265.

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A native veterinary surgeon once said to the present writer, “kuttÄ“-kÄ saliva bahut antiseptic hai†for “a dog’s saliva is very antiseptic,†and this is not an extravagant example.3 The vocabulary of Panjabi and Eastern Hindi is very similar to that of Western Hindi.

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In Buxa one afternoon when I happened to be inspecting the bazaar a native ran up in a state of great excitement to inform me that a "bahut burra samp," a very large snake, was climbing up the precipice on the west side of the hill on which the bazaar stood.

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Bahut hubshi log ata hain,†said a voice, and he sprang round, to see the Gurkha Subedar saluting.

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