Source — HinKhoj Hindi-English Dictionary, "जुगाड़" (jugaad)
- Title: जुगाड़ (jugaad) meaning in English
- Publication: HinKhoj Dictionary (dict.hinkhoj.com)
- URL: https://dict.hinkhoj.com/jugaad-meaning-in-hindi.words
- Accessed: 2026-09-03
- Type: primary for the Hindi-language entry itself (a bilingual learner's dictionary, directly read — this project's first directly-read Hindi-language lexicographic source, comparable in role to the Triantafyllidis Greek dictionary for meraki or HinKhoj's counterparts for other words, though a general bilingual learner's resource rather than an academic national dictionary such as Hindi Shabdsagar).
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Gives जुगाड़ / jugaad as a noun, with English gloss: "a frugal innovation or a quick fix solution using limited resources," further characterized as emphasizing "the ability to think creatively and find innovative ways to overcome challenges."
Example sentence given (Hindi and English): "अगर कुछ हो भी जाता है तो मैं कोई-न-कोई जुगाड़ कर लूँगा।" / "If anything goes wrong, I'll find some jugaad." — a directly-read, native-speaker-register usage example, notable for using "jugaad" as a countable noun ("find some jugaad" — i.e., find a workaround) in ordinary conversational Hindi, consistent with the "process/technique" sense given by Wiktionary and Oxford Learner's rather than the vehicle sense.
Gaps
- This is a general bilingual learner's dictionary, not an authoritative monolingual Hindi academic dictionary (e.g. Hindi Shabdsagar, published by Nagari Pracharini Sabha) — that stronger primary-source tier remains unchecked, the same standing gap this project records for Swedish (SAOB), Dutch (Van Dale), and other words' national academic dictionaries.
- No etymology, pronunciation guide, or part-of-speech-sense breakdown (e.g. the vehicle sense) was given by this particular entry.