E. Ind. Also joar, jooar, juar. [Hindī jawār.] = next.
1800. Asiatic Ann. Reg., Misc. Tracts, 289/2. In the Khereef they have a good deal of rice, also Jooar (Holcus Sorghum).
1884. Health Exhib. Catal., p. xliii. Samples of bajra and jowar.
1886. A. H. Church, Food Grains Ind., 85. Joár is one of the most important rainy-season crops of India.
1900. D. G. Churcher, in Blackw. Mag., May, 640/2. I happened to be perched on a machan in the middle of a jawar field.
