namaskar

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit नमस्कार (namaskāra), from नमस् (namas, bow, obeisance) +‎ कार (kāra, action).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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namaskar (countable and uncountable, plural namaskars)

  1. (India) The use of the greeting in which one puts one's hands together and bows slightly; greeting with a namaste. [from 19th c.]
    • 1847, “Letter from Mr. Stubbins”, in The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer, page 286:
      To every one I met I made my namaskar, and on entering my village, I made namaskar to a bowri, (a man of low caste.)
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 228:
      I bowed down, did namaskar and said a prayer.
    • 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 83:
      Navinchandra greeted the Counsellor with a namaskar; Buddhidhan responded solemnly.
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