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karma

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kar⋅ma

  [kahr-muh]
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–noun
1. Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti (def. 1), jnana.
2. Theosophy. the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation.
3. fate; destiny.
4. the good or bad emanations felt to be generated by someone or something.
Origin:
1820–30; < Skt: nom., acc. sing. of karman act, deed

Related forms:
karmic, adjective
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kar·ma   (kär'mə)   
n.  

  1. Hinduism & Buddhism The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.

  2. Fate; destiny.

  3. Informal A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today.


[Sanskrit, deed, action that has consequences, karma; see kwer- in Indo-European roots.]
kar'mic (-mĭk) adj.
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Word Origin & History

karma 
1827, in Buddhism, the sum of a person's actions in one life, which determine his form in the next; from Skt. karman- "action, fate," related to krnoti, Avestan kerenaoiti "makes," O.Pers. kunautiy "he makes;" from PIE base *kwer- "to make, form," related to the second element in Sanskrit.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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