单词 | mundan |
释义 | mundann. Hinduism. The ritual first shaving of a boy's head, usually performed when he is between one and three years old. Frequently attributive in mundan ceremony.Certain castes also perform the ceremony upon girls. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > Hindu > [noun] puja1681 shraddha1776 pradakshina1810 mundan1855 parikrama1877 havan1958 1855 H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms India 355/1 Mundan, a shaving the head, a ceremony performed on the children of both Mohammadans and Hindus. 1907 H. A. Rose in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 37 235 The first tonsure of a child is an important rite... In the south-west [of India] it is known as the jhaṇḍ and in other parts as the mûṇḍan. 1930 in V. Mehta Mamaji (1979) v. 108 Mundan ceremony of Bhagwan Das's Children. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 4 Apr. 18 The Mundan Ceremony..takes place in the first, third, fifth or seventh year after the birth of the child. 1988 R. Jackson & D. Killingley Approaches to Hinduism vii. 99 The story of Deepesh's mundana (first haircut) can be told. 1993 V. Seth Suitable Boy (U.K. ed.) vi. iii. 305 Your father can get me to sing at..the birth of your children. And at their mundan ceremony. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855 |
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