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avatar.

avatar

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Meaning & usage

noun/a.va.taʁ/

  1. avatar

    Hinduism · masculine

  2. avatar

    masculine

  3. misadventures, incidents

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root तरति (√tṝ, “to cross”).

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