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mahant

mahant noun: a head or chief of a monastery.

Noun

mahant (plural mahants)

  1. (Hinduism) A head or chief of a monastery.

mahant meaning in Tamil and Kannada

mahant in Tamil

மடத்தின் தலைவர்

mahant in Kannada

ಮಹಂತ, ದೇಗುಲದ ಮುಖ್ಯಸ್ಥ

Forms of mahant

pluralmahants

Origin of mahant

Borrowed from Hindi महान्त (mahānt), from Sanskrit महान् (mahān, “great”).

Questions about mahant

What does mahant mean?
Mahant means a head or chief of a monastery.
What is mahant in Tamil?
Mahant in Tamil is மடத்தின் தலைவர். See Mahant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mahant?
Mahant is a noun.
What is the plural of mahant?
The plural of mahant is mahants.

Words near mahant in the dictionary

  1. mahanna
  2. mahannah
  3. mahannahs
  4. mahannas
  5. Mahans
  6. mahant
  7. mahants
  8. Mahapajapati Gotami
  9. mahapatti
  10. mahapattis
  11. Mahaplag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mahant (page history and authors); mahant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mahant (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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