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namghar

namghar noun: a prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.

Noun

namghar (plural namghars)

  1. A prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.
    • A modern Namghar is an open rectangular hall having accommodation for five hundred to fifteen hundred people.1978, SM Dubey, editor, North East India: A Sociological Study, page 192
    • The namghar serves the purpose of a prayer hall as well as a hall for holding religious meetings and discussions.1993, Surajit Sinha, Anthropology of Weaker Sections, page 40

namghar meaning in Assamese

namghar in Assamese

namghar
থান than, সচাং xosaṅ, সচং xosoṅ

Forms of namghar

pluralnamghars
alternative formnaamghar

Origin of namghar

From Assamese নামঘৰ (namghor).

Questions about namghar

What does namghar mean?
Namghar means a prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.
What is namghar in Assamese?
Namghar in Assamese is থান (than), সচাং (xosaṅ), সচং (xosoṅ). See Namghar meaning in Assamese.
What part of speech is namghar?
Namghar is a noun.
What is the plural of namghar?
The plural of namghar is namghars.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: namghar (page history and authors); থান (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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