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Bully Kutta

dog breed

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ37680 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bully Kutta is a type of large dog that originated in the Indian subcontinent, dating back to the 16th century. The Bully Kutta is a working dog used for hunting and guarding. The type is popular in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, including Haryana and Delhi.

Name and description

Bully Kutta literally translates to "heavily wrinkled dog". The word "Bully" comes from the root word of the Hindustani and Punjabi language "Bohli" which means heavily wrinkled. "Bully" also is derived from Bull which means lips in Punjabi. This dog has big lips and hence Bully Kutta. "Kutta" means dog in the Punjabi language.

History

The Bully Kutta originated in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Indian subcontinent. In Thanjavur, the Bully Kutta was a favorite pet of ruling families.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bully Kutta” is dog breed. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bully, Kutta and breed, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 132-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bully, Kutta and breed is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q37680. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bully Kutta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.