English

Noun

namaskar ‎(plural namaskars)

1. (India) The use of the greeting in which you put your hands together and then bow slightly; greeting with a namaste. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 228:

     I bowed down, did namaskar and said a prayer.

Related terms

• namaste