dohai

English

Interjection

dohai

1. (India) A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong.
   • 1990, Khushwant Singh, Delhi, page 260:

     'Dohai! Dohai!' they screamed. 'They've killed our men, we want justice. Hang these foreigners or hand them over to us.'

   • 1893, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 67, page 153:

     She flung her hands up to heaven, and her young voice rose in the traditional cry for justice. 'Dohai! Dohai!'

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “dohai”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […]. (there spelled doai, dwye)