స్వామి
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Telugu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वामिन् (svāmin).
Noun[edit]
స్వామి • (svāmi) m (plural స్వాములు)
- a lord, master, sovereign, owner, proprietor, husband, spiritual guide or preceptor
- a Brahmin is usually thus addressed by a junior or by a Sudra
Further reading[edit]
- "స్వామి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1378