A carriage or wagon used in India, especially a horse-drawn vehicle used for transportation.
From Hindi and Urdu 'गाड़ी' (gāṛī), related to Sanskrit 'गर्त' meaning to move or turn. The word traveled into English through colonial Indian English in the 18th-19th centuries.
The word 'gadi' entered English during the British Raj and represents how colonial encounters created lasting vocabulary—if you study English literature from India, you'll find dozens of such words that reveal the cultural exchanges of that era.
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