different between tawaif vs tawaf

English

From Urdu ?????? / Hindi ?????? (tav?yaf).

tawaif (plural tawaifs or tawaif)

(South Asia, historical) A professional courtesan serving the nobility, especially under the Mughal Empire; (derogatory), a whore.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 11:
  ‘The tawaif has graduated from mere singing to dancing.’
- 2008, Gayatri Chatterjee, in Sahni, Shankar, Apte (Eds.), Prostitution and Beyond, p. 290:
  And since the British period, the reputation of a common prostitute has dogged the heels of the tawaif.

Borrowed from Arabic ??????? (?aw?f).

tawaf (countable and uncountable, plural tawafs)

(Islam) The ritual of circumambulating the Kaaba seven times as part of the hajj in Mecca.

tawaf

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