Dictionary

namaskar en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /naməˈskɑː/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (India, countable, uncountable) The use of the greeting in which one puts one's hands together and bows slightly; greeting with a namaste.
   • Navinchandra greeted the Counsellor with a namaskar; Buddhidhan responded solemnly. 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 83
   • I bowed down, did namaskar and said a prayer. 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 228:
   • 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.) 1847, “Letter from Mr. Stubbins”, in The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer, page 286:

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Relateds

namaste