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Burmese village
Answer for the clue "Burmese village ", 4 letters:
paan
Word definitions for paan in dictionaries
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Paan ( पान, পান from Sanskrit parṇa , "পর্ণ" "leaf") is a preparation combining betel leaf with areca nut and sometimes also with tobacco. It is chewed for its stimulant and psychoactive effects. After chewing it is either spat out or swallowed. Paan has ...
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alt. A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. n. A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, ...
Usage examples of paan.
He could have been asking her to bring him a paan, specifying what supari he wanted in it and whether he wished the betel nut flaked, cut, or sweetened.
Kaikeyi reached for another paan, glancing questioningly at Manthara first.
She went into a paroxysm of coughing, spewing out pieces of paan and juice and assorted flecks and bits of various things.
If she told Kaikeyi what was in these paans, the second queen would vomit out the entire mouthful.
What man is there who, if he knew that, after thirty years of suffering terminated by a fearful death, he should rise again into boundless bliss and glory while rapt infinitude rung with the paans of an applauding universe, and that by means of his humiliation he could redeem countless millions from eternal torture, would not with a joyous spring undertake the task?