namghar

English

Alternative forms

• naamghar

Etymology

From Assamese নামঘৰ (namghor).

Noun

namghar (plural namghars)

1. A prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.
   • 1978, SM Dubey, editor, North East India: A Sociological Study, page 192:

     A modern Namghar is an open rectangular hall having accommodation for five hundred to fifteen hundred people.

   • 1993, Surajit Sinha, Anthropology of Weaker Sections, page 40:

     The namghar serves the purpose of a prayer hall as well as a hall for holding religious meetings and discussions.

   • 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 10:

     ‘I have offered a gold flower at the naamghar; to the temple I have offered a trident.’