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purohit

purohit noun: a family priest.

Noun

purohit (plural purohits)

  1. (India) A family priest.
    • The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327
    • At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42

Proper noun capitalized: Purohit

Purohit (plural Purohits)

  1. A surname.

purohit meaning in Tamil

purohit in Tamil

புலைமகன், புலையன்

Forms of purohit

Noun
pluralpurohits
Proper noun
pluralPurohits

Origin of purohit

From Hindi पुरोहित (purohit), from Sanskrit पुरोहित (purohita) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-.

Questions about purohit

What does purohit mean?
Purohit means a family priest.
What is purohit in Tamil?
Purohit in Tamil is புலைமகன், புலையன். See Purohit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purohit?
Purohit can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of purohit?
The plural of purohit is purohits.

Words near purohit in the dictionary

  1. Purnim
  2. Purnim West
  3. Purnima
  4. puro
  5. Puro-Batia
  6. purohit
  7. purohits
  8. Puroik
  9. puroindoline
  10. puroindolines
  11. purok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purohit (page history and authors); Purohit (page history and authors); purohit (Tamil 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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