Etymology

namaste

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Today it means: A greeting in contexts relating to Indian culture or the New Age movement. Full definition →

Sanskrit नमस्ते
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  1. Sanskrit · learned borrowing fromनमस्ते
  2. English todaynamaste

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, literally “a bow to you”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.