English Explanatory Dictionary

BIMARU

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, the poorest and least developed regions in India.
noun
  1. a person from said states.

Word forms

BIMARU BIMARUs

Etymology

Word-play on Hindi बीमार (bīmār, “sick, ill”), coined by Indian demographer Ashish Bose in the 1980s.

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