"Benares" meaning in English

See Benares in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|hi|बनारस}} Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Benares
  1. (dated) Alternative form of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India Tags: alt-of, alternative, dated Alternative form of: Varanasi (extra: a city in Uttar Pradesh, India) Categories (place): Cities in India, Cities in Uttar Pradesh, Places in India, Places in Uttar Pradesh Translations (Varanasi city): Benáres [masculine] (Czech)
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "बनारस"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Benares",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a city in Uttar Pradesh, India",
          "word": "Varanasi"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in India",
          "orig": "en:Cities in India",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in Uttar Pradesh",
          "orig": "en:Cities in Uttar Pradesh",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in India",
          "orig": "en:Places in India",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Uttar Pradesh",
          "orig": "en:Places in Uttar Pradesh",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India"
      ],
      "id": "en-Benares-en-name-J6~xfy5T",
      "links": [
        [
          "Varanasi",
          "Varanasi#English"
        ],
        [
          "Uttar Pradesh",
          "Uttar Pradesh#English"
        ],
        [
          "India",
          "India#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) Alternative form of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dated"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "Varanasi city",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Benáres"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Benares"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "बनारस"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Benares",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a city in Uttar Pradesh, India",
          "word": "Varanasi"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
        "English terms derived from Hindi",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "en:Cities in India",
        "en:Cities in Uttar Pradesh",
        "en:Places in India",
        "en:Places in Uttar Pradesh"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Varanasi",
          "Varanasi#English"
        ],
        [
          "Uttar Pradesh",
          "Uttar Pradesh#English"
        ],
        [
          "India",
          "India#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) Alternative form of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Varanasi city",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Benáres"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Benares"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Benares meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.