purohit

See also: Purohit

English

Etymology

From Hindi पुरोहित (purohit), from Sanskrit पुरोहित (purohita) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-.

Noun

purohit (plural purohits)

1. (India) A family priest.
   • 1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327:

     The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42:

     At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.

   • 2006, Shyam Singh Shashi, The World of Nomads, page 66:

     The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.