| 释义 |
langar, n.
Brit. |ˈlʌŋgə|, U.S. |ˈləŋgər|
[‹ Urdu langar and Panjabi laṅgar public kitchen, almshouse; food distributed to the needy, also denoting a public eating place attached to a gurdwara, and their etymon Persian langar public eating place attached to an (esp. Sufi) shrine, of uncertain origin.]
In south Asia: a communal kitchen or eating place (in quot. 1874: a rest house for travellers). Now esp. (Sikhism): a public eating place attached to a gurdwara and run by the local Sikh community, serving free food (typically after worship); (also) the food or a meal served in such a place.
1874B. Taylor Central Asia xiv. 271 We halted at a solitary ‘langar’ (or rest-house) on the edge of the sandy track. 1935M. R. Anand Untouchable (1940) 76 The rascal has gone to get food at the langar (the kitchen) in the barracks. 1958T. de Bary et al. Sources Indian Trad. xx. 540 Amar Das, by even greater stress upon the langar, possibly weakened caste feeling among those who shared the common meal. 1984Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Nov. a44 Devotees offered prayers and participated in the langar, the traditional free meal offered at Sikh holy places. 2002I. Taylor Directions 2 104/1 Food served in the langar is always vegetarian because Sikhs believe that everyone will then be able to eat it. |