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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

What’s --- DHARMA

 

we'll see a few loanwords from Sanskrit -- words from this ancient Indian language that are now part of English.

dharma (DHAR-muh) noun

1. Duty; right behavior.

2. Law, especially the eternal law of the cosmos.

3. Religion.

[From Sanskrit dharma (law, custom, duty). Ultimately from Indo-European root dher- (to hold firmly or support) that is also the source of firm, affirm, confirm, farm, fermata, and firmament.]

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