English

Alternative forms

• burra khana

Noun

burra-khana ‎(plural burra-khanas)

1. (India) A great entertainment or feast.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 14:

     I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delanes' burra-khana.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 47:

     ‘Wasn't a man in town who could put on a burra-khana like he did.’

Related terms

• khana