dohai

English

Interjection

dohai

(India) A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong.
- 1990, Khushwant Singh, Delhi, page 260:
  'Dohai! Dohai!' they screamed. 'They've killed our men, we want justice. Hang these foreigners or hand them over to us.'
- 1893, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 67, page 153:
  She flung her hands up to heaven, and her young voice rose in the traditional cry for justice. 'Dohai! Dohai!'

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “dohai”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […]. (there spelled doai, dwye)

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