namaste
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əˌsteɪ noun
a conventional Hindu expression on meeting or parting, used by the speaker usually while holding the palms together vertically in front of the bosom.
Origin:
1945–50; < Sanskrit: hail, literally, (a) bow to thee
1945–50; < Sanskrit: hail, literally, (a) bow to thee
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| —interj | |
| a salutation used in India | |
| [C21: via Hindi from Sanskrit, from namas salutation, bow + te to you] | |
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Namaste
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| Main Entry: | namaste |
| Part of Speech: | n, interj |
| Example: | Sanskrit 'homage; bowing to you' |
| Etymology: | namaste v |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
namaste
"salutatory gesture," 1948, from Hindi, from Skt. namas "bowing" + te, dat. of tuam "you" (sing.). Used as a word of greeting from 1967.
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Example sentences
Clutching bunch of marigolds, a weeping mourner presses his hands together in a namaste, a traditional Indian sign of homage.
Namaste, as your instructor says at the end of a session: the divine in me bows to the divine in you.
Ceylonese still have to say yes sir and namaste to their former masters and current masters respectively.
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