Hindu
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈhɪndu/
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- In honor of the Taj Mahal, I would like to offer this traditional Hindu prayer.
- Hindu gods
- Hindu deities
- Hindu temple
I don't, I don't know nearly as much about Hindu religious thought as I should.
- I don't, I don't know nearly as much about Hindu religious thought as I should.
- It wants to resurrect an ethnic Hindu religious definition of India.
- We see within the Hindu tradition, this idea of what was called the thread spirit.
- Meet me at the Hindu temple at morning puja.
- And of course, within the Hindu faith there's so many different branches of ways of ways of approaching the one supreme being.
- Congress fearing a weak centre, the League fearing Hindu domination.
- So Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, spiritual, but not religious.
- In honor of the Taj Mahal, I would like to offer this traditional Hindu prayer.
- So they say in, you know, Vedanta and Hindu mysticism, that your truest innermost self is God.
- I, I, I'm not going to get drawn into a bitter argument about gender fluidity in Hindu iconography.
- Yes, it's a old Hindu awful practice.
Examples
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Another likely source for Hindu imagery is the Indian movies popular throughout Africa.
Academic text (1999) -
A statue of Shiva, the Hindu Lord of creation and destruction.
Fiction book (1995) -
We're currently headed to a Hindu temple.
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The proper explanation is the Hindu explanation - it's a sacred river.
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There are 33 million gods in the Hindu religion.
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Meet me at the Hindu temple at morning puja.
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My mother had a bunch of beauty, beautiful art pieces and books about Hindu gods and goddesses.
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Shankara is a very famous Hindu philosopher sage.
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I remembered the line from the Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad Gita.
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We visited a magnificent Hindu temple during our trip to India.
Synonyms
Used in the past to describe the Hindu religion or people from India
Compounds
- Indian
A calendar using the moon and the sun to set Hindu religious dates, adding an extra month sometimes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hindu began as a name for people living beyond the river Sindhu ('river'), and over time that name became the label for their religion and culture. That's why Hindu is used as an adjective for beliefs, temples, and customs linked to Hinduism.