namaskar

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/naməˈskɑː/ (UK)

Definition of namaskar

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (India, countable, uncountable)The use of the greeting in which one puts one's hands together and bows slightly; greeting with a namaste.
    “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.)”
    “I bowed down, did namaskar and said a prayer.”
    “Navinchandra greeted the Counsellor with a namaskar; Buddhidhan responded solemnly.”

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Etymology

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

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