langar

From Hindi लंगर (laṅgar), Punjabi ਲੰਗਰ (laṅgar, “public kitchen, almshouse”), and their source, Persian لنگر‎ (“public eating-place attached to Sufi shrine”). Doublet of anchor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌŋɡə/

langar (countable and uncountable, plural langars)

1. (countable) A public eating-place in South Asia, now especially a communal kitchen run by a Sikh community and serving free food. [from 19th c.]
   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 98:

     While many hungry people go to the langars in Delhi's gurudwaras, or in Birmingham, or the two in Queens, New York, because the food is good and free, there's a decidedly political dimension […]

2. (uncountable) The free food served at such a place.

• raglan

langar

1. drizzle

langar (m)

1. nominative indefinite plural of langur

langar

1. present tense of langa.