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lingam

/ling-guhm/US // ˈlɪŋ gəm //UK // (ˈlɪŋɡəm) //

灵岩,凌云,琳琅

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Sanskrit Grammar. the masculine gender.
    • : a phallus, symbol of Siva.

Examples

  • Everything tending to this end is to him venerable and holy, and it is in this respect alone that he worships the Lingam.

  • Who would possess a lingam which was an Open Sesame to devildom and not make use thereof?

  • The May-pole properly pierces a disc and thus conforms with the lingam-yoni of India.

  • Rama's brother Lakshman, whose duty it was to send him daily a new lingam from Benares, was late in doing so one evening.

  • In the chief of them stand three statues of Buddha; in the lateral ones a lingam and two Jaina idols.