| 单词 |
namaskar |
| 释义 |
‖ namaskar India.|nʌmʌˈskɑː(r)|
Also namashkar, namaskara.
[Hindi, ad. Skr. namaskârá, the greeting ‘namas’, obeisance.]
= namaste n.
1930C. Parsons Mysore City 88 Indian girls..making the silent and beautiful salutation of the ‘namaskāra’—folded hands and bent head and bowing figure. 1948U.N. World (N.Y.) Apr. 35 One by one they filed past, some doing namaskar (hands placed together in an attitude of prayer), others bowing low. 1966J. & R. Godden Two under Indian Sun iv. 102 Instead of a handshake, he uses the namashkar, the graceful movement that means ‘to take the other's dust upon you’, hands joined together as if in prayer and raised to the forehead or the breast according to the rank or honour of the person saluted. 1967Singha & Massey Indian Dances iii. 44 Indians always use joined palms for the namashkar, that is, when they greet anyone, but the position in which they are held indicates the status of the person greeted. 1969R. Shankar My Music i. 12/1 The simplest gesture of the namaskar, or greeting (putting the hands palm to palm in front of the forehead and bowing). 1972‘E. Peters’ Death to Landlords! viii. 113 Priya offered her namaskar shyly. |
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