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dharmsala

dharmsala noun: a charitable or religious house, especially a resthouse for travellers.

Noun

dharmsala (plural dharmsalas)

  1. (India, historical) A charitable or religious house, especially a resthouse for travellers.
    • The corridor was paved and wayfarers used it as a dharamshala.2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 2

dharmsala meaning in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati

dharmsala in Hindi

dharmsala
धर्मशाला dharmśālā

dharmsala in Marathi

dharmsala
धर्मशाळा dharmaśāḷā

dharmsala in Gujarati

dharmsala
ધર્મશાળા dharmaśāḷā

Forms of dharmsala

pluraldharmsalas
alternative formdharamshala
alternative formdharmshala

Origin of dharmsala

From Hindi धर्मशाला (dharmaśālā), from Sanskrit.

Questions about dharmsala

What does dharmsala mean?
Dharmsala means a charitable or religious house, especially a resthouse for travellers.
What is dharmsala in Hindi?
Dharmsala in Hindi is धर्मशाला (dharmśālā). See Dharmsala meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dharmsala?
Dharmsala is a noun.
What is the plural of dharmsala?
The plural of dharmsala is dharmsalas.

Words near dharmsala in the dictionary

  1. dharmically
  2. Dharmics
  3. Dharmism
  4. Dharmist
  5. Dharmists
  6. dharmsala
  7. dharmsalas
  8. dharmshala
  9. dharmshalas
  10. dharna
  11. dharnas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dharmsala (page history and authors); धर्मशाला (Hindi) (page history and authors); धर्मशाळा (Marathi) (page history and authors); ધર્મશાળા (Gujarati) (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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