diya
/ˈdiːjə
/noun Indian
A small cup-shaped oil lamp made of baked clay: I was glad she used diyas instead of electrical lighting...
- I recall a drive outside Delhi, and we passed village after village lit up like a fairyland, with hundreds of clay diyas.
- Fireworks whizzed into the sky and diyas and sparkles brought light into many an eye.
- A little girl sold us mud diyas with little candles in them.
Origin
From Hindi dīyā.
- tee shirt
- tee-shirted
- tee someone off
- Teesside
- Teeswater
- teeter
- teeter on the brink (or edge)
- teeter-totter
- teeth
- teethe
- teeth-gnasher
- teething problems
- teething ring
- teething troubles
- millionairess
- millionaire's salad
- millionaire's shortbread
- millionairish
- millionairism
- million city
- million-dollar
- million-dollar question
- million-dollar weed
- million-dollar wound
- millioned