purohit
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Noun[edit]
purohit (plural purohits)
- (India) A family priest.
- 1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327:
- The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42:
- At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.
- 2006, Shyam Singh Shashi, The World of Nomads, page 66:
- The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.