Bagh
noun
(in India and Pakistan) a garden
Historical Examples
How many times have you been saved from danger because of our watchfulness—and also bagh the Killer!
The Sa’-Zada Tales William Alexander Fraser
This, in the first instance; and in the second, the bagh tigers are no ordinary tigers either.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
The strain was so trying that I almost wished bagh would charge.
The Sa’-Zada Tales William Alexander Fraser
When we arrived on the spot, where the bagh cere-mony was celebrated, the festivity was at its height.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
Do you mean to say, bagh, that you could not see them in the trees?
The Sa’-Zada Tales William Alexander Fraser
On the 24th of November we arrived at bagh, a village situated at the Cabul side of the desert, elsewhere described.
Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan William Taylor
Meanwhile, the bagh caves were quite close to us, not more than fifty miles off, to the east from Mandu.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
At that moment the poor fellow tried to raise himself, and groaned out the words, “bagh, bagh!”
Gil the Gunner George Manville Fenn
bagh is visible a long way off from its being ornamented with a gamboge, or ochre-wash, otherwise its aspect is poor and muddy.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The William Griffith
bagh is celebrated for gunpowder; it is a largish, straggling, but poor place, though thickly tenanted.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The William Griffith
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