0 the practice of making designs on someone's hands with henna (= a reddish-brown dye), especially for someone's wedding day in Indian and Pakistani weddings
The smoke of such preparation smells like mehndi.
Intricate patterns of mehndi are typically applied to brides before wedding ceremonies.
The workshops featured children drawing mehndi peace symbols, making origami paper cranes, drumming workshops and sharing books about peace.
Married ladies dress up in new clothes, jewellery and apply mehndi onto their hands.
Heena is also a human name and means mehndi (the application of henna as a temporary form of skin decoration).
She suspects they are having an affair, and tells all the guests at the mehndi, leaving everyone shocked.
Her hands are covered with mehndi and an enigmatic symbol on one palm.
The plate contains "mehndi" and "dori".