jawab
nounEtymology Borrowed from Hindustani جَوَاب (javāb) / जवाब (javāb), from Classical Persian جَوَاب (jawāb), from Arabic جَوَاب (jawāb).
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India, Historical An answer, especially a dismissal, or a woman's rejection of a marriage proposal.
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India Anything erected or planted as a symmetrical double.
- Flanking the mausoleum […] are two symmetrically identical buildings — the mosque, which faces east, and its jawab, which faces west and provides aesthetic balance.2010, Kenneth Pletcher, The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places, page 96: