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damaru

damaru noun: a drum having two heads opposite one another, commonly used in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.

Noun

damaru (plural damarus)

  1. (Hinduism, India, Nepal, Tibet) a drum having two heads opposite one another, commonly used in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.

damaru meaning in Bengali, Odia and Assamese

damaru in Bengali

damaru
ডমরু ḍomru

damaru in Odia

damaru
ଡମରୁ ḍamaru

damaru in Assamese

damaru
ডম্বৰু domboru

Forms of damaru

pluraldamarus

Origin of damaru

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi डमरू (ḍamrū) / Urdu ڈَمَرُو (ḍamarū)), Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru) and Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ (ḍa ma ru).

Questions about damaru

What does damaru mean?
Damaru means a drum having two heads opposite one another, commonly used in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.
What is damaru in Bengali?
Damaru in Bengali is ডমরু (ḍomru). See Damaru meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is damaru?
Damaru is a noun.
What is the plural of damaru?
The plural of damaru is damarus.

Words near damaru in the dictionary

  1. Damaras
  2. Damari
  3. Damaris
  4. Damariscotta
  5. damars
  6. damaru
  7. damarus
  8. Damas
  9. damasceen
  10. damasceened
  11. damasceening

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: damaru (page history and authors); ডমরু (Bengali) (page history and authors); ଡମରୁ (Odia) (page history and authors); ডম্বৰু (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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