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sangh

sangh is the alternative form of sangha.

Meaning of sangha

Noun

sangha (plural sanghas)

  1. The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism.
  2. The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).

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Proper noun capitalized: Sangh

Sangh

  1. (India, abbreviation, ellipsis, Indian politics) Ellipsis of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Forms of sangh

pluralsanghs

Questions about sangh

What is sangh the alternative form of?
Sangh is the alternative form of sangha.
What part of speech is sangh?
Sangh is a proper noun.

Words near sangh in the dictionary

  1. sangest small
  2. sangfroid
  3. sangfroids
  4. sanggenon
  5. sanggenons
  6. sangh
  7. sangha
  8. Sanghanan
  9. Sangharama
  10. sanghas
  11. Sanghera

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sangh (page history and authors); Sangh (page history and authors); sangha (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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