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English
Etymology
Sanskrit मुण्डन (muṇḍana)
Noun
mundan (countable and uncountable, plural mundans)
- (Hinduism) The ceremonial first tonsure of a child's hair.
2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 70:There are no birth records of when my grandmother was born because most children in the refugee camps died before their mundans, when babies have their heads ritually shaved.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mundanus.
Adjective
mundan m or n (feminine singular mundană, masculine plural mundani, feminine and neuter plural mundane)
- worldly, mundane
Declension