See also: Purohit

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purohit (plural purohits)

  1. (India) A family priest.
    • 1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327:
      The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42:
      At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.
    • 2006, Shyam Singh Shashi, The World of Nomads, page 66:
      The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.