jawar

English

Alternative forms

• jawari, jooar, jowar, jowari, juari, jowarry, jowaur, jowarree, juarree

Etymology

From Hindi जवार (javār).

Noun

jawar (usually uncountable, plural jawars)

1. (India) Sorghum, Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 93:

     Sharankumar Limbale also recalls vividly […] how his grandmother collected remnants of undigested jowar grains from cow dung, washed and then dried them in the sun.