"dohai" meaning in English

See dohai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

  1. (India) A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong. Tags: India
{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Khushwant Singh, Delhi, page 260:",
          "text": "'Dohai! Dohai!' they screamed. 'They've killed our men, we want justice. Hang these foreigners or hand them over to us.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 67, page 153:",
          "text": "She flung her hands up to heaven, and her young voice rose in the traditional cry for justice. 'Dohai! Dohai!'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong."
      ],
      "id": "en-dohai-en-intj-a3zbzZ5B",
      "links": [
        [
          "justice",
          "justice"
        ],
        [
          "redress",
          "redress"
        ],
        [
          "wrong",
          "wrong"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dohai"
}
{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Khushwant Singh, Delhi, page 260:",
          "text": "'Dohai! Dohai!' they screamed. 'They've killed our men, we want justice. Hang these foreigners or hand them over to us.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 67, page 153:",
          "text": "She flung her hands up to heaven, and her young voice rose in the traditional cry for justice. 'Dohai! Dohai!'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "justice",
          "justice"
        ],
        [
          "redress",
          "redress"
        ],
        [
          "wrong",
          "wrong"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dohai"
}

Download raw JSONL data for dohai meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). 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.