bhajan
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi भजन (bhajan).
Noun
bhajan (plural bhajans)
- (music) A type of Indian devotional song.
- c. 1885, A.L.O.E, The Wondrous Sickle:
- "No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 396:
- Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?