స్వామి
Telugu
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वामिन् (svāmin).
Noun
editస్వామి • (svāmi) m (plural స్వాములు)
- a lord, master, sovereign, owner, proprietor, husband, spiritual guide or preceptor
- a Brahmin is usually thus addressed by a junior or by a Sudra
Further reading
edit- "స్వామి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1378