bhisti

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hindustani भिश्ती (bhiśtī)/بهِشتی‎ (bhishti), from Persian بهشت‎ (behešt).

Noun

bhisti (plural bhistis or bhisties)

  1. A traditional water-carrier of South Asia.
    • 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books 2011, p. 122:
      He remembered Pam horse-whipping a blackguard of a corporal who was found to have interfered with the bhisti’s sister.
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