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Meaning of "beedi" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BEEDI

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEEDI

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beedi is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BEEDI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

beedi

Beedi

A beedi is a thin, Indian cigarette filled with tobacco flake and wrapped in a tendu or possibly even Piliostigma racemosum leaf tied with a string at one end. The name is derived from the Marwari word beeda—a leaf wrapped in betel nuts, herbs, and condiments. Tendu Patta Collection in Chhattisgarh, India A traditional method of tobacco use throughout South Asia and parts of the Middle East, today beedies are popular and inexpensive in India. There, beedi consumption outpaces that of conventional cigarettes although these tobacco-filled leaves deliver more nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar and carry a greater risk of oral cancers. Beedies accounted for 48% of Indian tobacco consumption in 2008. As with many other types of smoking, beedis increase the risk of certain kinds of cancers, heart disease, and lung disease.

Definition of beedi in the English dictionary

The definition of beedi in the dictionary is a type of Indian cigarette.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEEDI


beady
ˈbiːdɪ
bredie
ˈbriːdɪ
deedy
ˈdiːdɪ
greedy
ˈɡriːdɪ
heedy
ˈhiːdɪ
Macready
məˈkriːdɪ
needy
ˈniːdɪ
orthopaedy
ˈɔːθəʊpiːdɪ
orthopedy
ˌɔːθəʊˈpiːdɪ
overgreedy
ˌəʊvəˈɡriːdɪ
reedy
ˈriːdɪ
seedy
ˈsiːdɪ
speedy
ˈspiːdɪ
tweedy
ˈtwiːdɪ
ungreedy
ʌnˈɡriːdɪ
unheedy
ʌnˈhiːdɪ
weedy
ˈwiːdɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEEDI

beech marten
Beecham
beechdrops
beechen
Beecher
Beecher Stowe
beechmast
beechnut
beechwood
beechy
beef
beef cattle
beef olive
beef road
beef sausage
beef stroganoff
beef tea
beef tomato
beefalo
beefburger

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEEDI

Bondi
budi
Burundi
cedi
garibaldi
Hindi
jedi
Lodi
Lombardi
Mahdi
mandi
maravedi
midi
nidi
Pedi
secondi
soldi
Verdi
Vivaldi
wadi

Synonyms and antonyms of beedi in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «beedi» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEEDI

Find out the translation of beedi to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beedi from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beedi» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

比迪烟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

beedi
570 millions of speakers

English

beedi
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीडी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

beedi
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

beedi
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

beedi
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

beedi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beedi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beedi
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

beedi
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

beedi
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Beedi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

beedi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பீடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बीडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

beedi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

beedi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

beedi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

beedi
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

beedi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Beedi
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Beedi
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beedi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

beedi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beedi

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEEDI»

The term «beedi» is regularly used and occupies the 59.109 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEEDI» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beedi» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beedi» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beedi

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEEDI»

Discover the use of beedi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beedi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tobacco, tendu leaf, and beedi workers in India: problems ...
Beedi Industry Is Now More Than A Century Old. Ever Since The Introduction Of Tobacco Cultivation In The Country A Sizeable Segment Of Labour Force Is Engaged In Different Processes Of Tobacco From Its Production To Consumption.
Uday Kumar Varma, M. M. Rehman, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, 2005
2
Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative: The ...
Under pressure from trade union agitation, its report, published in 1947, recommended bringing the beedi industry under the New Factories Act, strictly regulating child labor, and enforcing the Payment of Wages Act, the Maternity Benefit Act, ...
T. M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke, Pyaralal Raghavan, 1998
3
Small Scale Industries: Problems of small-scale industries
P. Anandha Rajakumar The beedi industry occupies a prominent place in rural development in terms of its capacity to offer potential employment opportunities to a large number of people. It employs over three million workers mostly consisting  ...
Mookkiah Soundarapandian, 2002
4
The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India
disorders.102 Of the twenty-six child beedi rollers interviewed by Human Rights Watch, six (23 percent) had parents who were either dead or dying as a result of tuberculosis.103 If the cycle continues unchanged, in twenty-five years these ...
‎1996
5
The beedi ban, tobacco monopolies, and the myth of child ...
In the Indian context.
Vandana Shiva, Margaret Antony, Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology (New Delhi, India), 2000
6
Speaking to power: 27 voice tools : building bridges for ...
Problem Pn'on'tisation — (Voting) Men Women (i) Health 2 problems due to beedi-making; get aged much before time; the hospital for beedi workers does not have arrangement for proper treatment and the doctors are also not equipped well ...
Neela Mukherjee, 2009
7
Girl Child in India
GIRL CHILD IN BEEDI INDUSTRY It has been reported by Dr. G. Kannabiran, President of the All India Beedi, Tobacco and Cigar Workers' Federation that apathy of the Government in implementing the Beedi and Cigar Workers' ( Conditions) ...
S. N. Tripathy, Sripremananda Pradhan, 2003
8
Social Security for the Excluded Majority: Case Studies of ...
It is significant that beedi workers (4.25 million) - who constitute the majority of such workers - are concentrated in a dozen states, the most prominent among them being Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar ...
Wouter van Ginneken, 1999
9
The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and ...
This phenomenon, of the leader being male despite the vast majority of union members being female, was found in both the CPM construction workers' union and the CPM beedi workers' union. The male union leader told us that he was very ...
Barbara Harriss-White, Judith Heyer, 2009
10
Women's Equality: A Struggle for Survival
Women Beedi Workers - Vellore Vellore in North Arcot district has I I ,600 members in the WWF's branch. Here, a large number of women and children are engaged in beedi rolling work both with the town and in the surrounding areas.
Jaya Arunachalam, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEEDI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beedi is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Re-discovering namma Bengaluru
... her Mumbaikar husband Vikram, regularly toured thindi beedi (Bengaluru's eat street in V.V. Puram). The avarekai mela and kadlekai parishe ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Lending a helping hand
... manufacturing units, automobile units, beedi factories, power loom and handloom unit, brick kilns, and hotels have been admitted to schools. «The Hindu, Jul 15»
3
Vellore's CLASS Rescues 1476 Kids, Bags State Award for Best …
The CLASS programme was launched in Vellore in 1995 through which 15,421 children were identified as child labourers in beedi rolling, ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
4
Beedi workers stage protest, demand dearness allowance
Mangaluru: Beedi workers took out protest rally in Mangaluru, on Tuesday, and urged the government to withdraw the gazette notification ... «SahilOnline, Jul 15»
5
Church Meet Raises Bogey of Conversion
The women who attended the meeting were from Kaliya Gownder Thottam, who were servant maids, beedi workers and some running petty ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
6
M'luru: Protest held over demand of dearness allowance
Mangaluru, Jun 30: A protest was staged in front of the labour commissioner's office here on June 30 by Beedi and Tobacco Labour Union, ... «Daijiworld.com, Jun 15»
7
Arthur Road jail provides marijuana to beedi, at a price: Inmate …
Management graduate, who spent two arduous years in Arthur Road jail, says hard cash is all that matters in prison. (HT file photo/Kunal Patil) ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
8
Beedi worker's daughter does parents proud with stellar performance
“It is sheer hard work that has brought my daughter to this level,” says Ms. Brinda, a beedi worker, while she is embraced by Shwetha for a ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
9
Beedi worker's daughter does parents proud
“It is sheer hard work that has brought my daughter to this level,” says Ms. Brinda, a beedi worker, while she is embraced by Shwetha for a ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
10
Naik refutes allegations on depriving DA
“The government has decided to pass the order to prevent the beedi industry in the State from shifting to Kerala and protect the beedi workers ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»

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