స్వామి

Telugu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वामिन् (svāmin).

Noun

స్వామి • (svāmi) m (plural స్వాములు)

1. a lord, master, sovereign, owner, proprietor, husband, spiritual guide or preceptor
2. a Brahmin is usually thus addressed by a junior or by a Sudra

Further reading

• "స్వామి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1378