gherao
English
editEtymology
editFrom Hindi घेराव (gherāv, “encirclement”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɡɛˈɹaʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editgherao (plural gheraos or gheraoes)
- (India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.
Verb
editgherao (third-person singular simple present gheraos, present participle gheraoing, simple past and past participle gheraoed)
- (India, transitive) To surround for this purpose.
- 2010, B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India[6], Tranquebar Press, →ISBN:
- Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs, […]
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