bigha

English

Alternative forms

• beegah, beegha, bega, begah, bigah

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali বিঘা (bigha).

Noun

bigha (plural bighas)

1. (India, Bangladesh) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre. [from 18th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 208:

     Colonel Watson had, within a brick wall, at least four hundred begahs of land, which the East India Company had executed a grant of to him to construct docks […] .

Translations

land measure unit

• Assamese: বিঘা (bigha)

Anagrams

• Habig, bigah, higab

Tagalog

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”). Compare Kapampangan biga. Possible doublet of magha.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /biɡˈhaʔ/ [bɪɡˈhaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: big‧ha

Noun

bighâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ᜔ᜑ)

1. (astronomy) nebula
2. (obsolete) cloud

Further reading

• “bigha”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• bihag