namghar

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Assamese নামঘৰ (namghor).

Noun

namghar (plural namghars)

  1. A prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.
    • 1978, SM Dubey (Ed.), North East India: A Sociological Study, p. 192:
      A modern Namghar is an open rectangular hall having accommodation for five hundred to fifteen hundred people.
    • 1993, Surajit Sinha, Anthropology of Weaker Sections, p. 40:
      The namghar serves the purpose of a prayer hall as well as a hall for holding religious meetings and discussions.
    • 2015, Ranjita Biswas, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial 2015, p. 10:
      ‘I have offered a gold flower at the naamghar; to the temple I have offered a trident.’
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