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maaveh en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari مان٘ویں (māṉveṉ), plural form of مان٘واں (māṉvāṉ, “mother's young brother”).

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:British Pakistani, slang) the police.
    • For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’ 2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature, retrieved 20 Apr 2024: