Barelvi
adjective, noun
Barelvi is an adjective meaning “Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-R-E-L-V-I, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Barelvi mean?
adjective
- 1
Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.
noun
- 1
A follower of Barelvism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Barelvi
- more Barelvi comparative
- most Barelvi superlative
- Barelvis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Barelvi?
Barelvi appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Barelvi come from?
From Urdu بریلوی (barelvī); which means "of Bareilly" from Bareilly, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India; the location in which the movement began.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).