కచేరి

Telugu

Alternative forms

కచేరీ (kacērī)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi कचहरी (kacahrī, “court; crowd”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kat͡ɕeːɾi/, [kat͡ʃeːɾi]

Noun

కచేరి • (kacēri) n (plural కచేరులు)

An office cutchery, a place of public business.
Synonym: కొలువుకూటము (koluvukūṭamu)
A public court.
Synonyms: చావడి (cāvaḍi), కొలువుకూటము (koluvukūṭamu)
A nautch, the ceremony of dancing at a wedding.
A concert.

References

"కచేరి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1406

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