An alternative plural form of gharri, used in some English dialects and historical texts to refer to multiple horse-drawn Indian carriages.
A variant plural of gharri using the -is ending, possibly influenced by Indian English or Sanskrit pluralization patterns. This form appears in historical British texts from the colonial period.
This variant plural shows how English speakers struggled to handle Indian loanwords—should they use English rules (-ies) or adopt the source language's plural? Different writers chose differently, creating competing forms that tell us about linguistic uncertainty.
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