bhajan
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 2013, p. 396:
- Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?
- c.1885, A.L.O.E., The Wondrous Sickle: