1. one of a group of people from Nepal who are known as good soldiers. Some Gurkhas are members of a regiment in the British army.
   Word Originname of a locality, from Sanskrit goraksÌ£a ‘cowherd’ (from go ‘cow’ + raksÌ£- ‘protect’), used as an epithet of their patron deity.

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