Word history
Wiktionary records जावेरी (jāverī) as a Hindi surname. The entry describes जावेरी as a Hindi spelling of Gujarati ઝવેરી and explicitly gives jeweller as its sense. It is a spelling connection between written forms of a word. The sound represented by Jh in Jhaveri can appear differently in Latin renderings. The occupational meaning is part of the dictionary word and does not identify anyone’s present-day trade.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
Literal dictionary sense
jāverī: Jeweller.
Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
Native-script forms
Spelling variants
Javeri, Zaveri.
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
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