aanchal
noun
aanchal is a noun meaning “The end of a sari that hangs loose over the shoulder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-A-N-C-H-A-L, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Aanchal, the name). The plural of aanchal is aanchals.
What does aanchal mean?
noun
- 1
The end of a sari that hangs loose over the shoulder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aanchal
- aanchals plural
- anchal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aanchal?
Aanchal appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Aanchal, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does aanchal come from?
Borrowed from Hindi आँचल (ā̃cal), from Sanskrit अञ्चल (añcala).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).