Kaurava
noun
Kaurava is a noun meaning “Any descendant of King Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many characters of the Mahabharata” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-U-R-A-V-A, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Kaurava is Kauravas.
What does Kaurava mean?
noun
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Any descendant of King Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many characters of the Mahabharata.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Kaurava
- Kauravas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Kaurava?
Kaurava appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 Kaurava come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit कौरव (kaurava).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).