భిక్షువు
Telugu
Etymology
From Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣu) + -వు (-vu).
Noun
భిక్షువు • (bhikṣuvu) ? (plural భిక్షువులు)
- a Brahmacharin living on alms during his study period
- Synonym: బ్రహ్మచారి (brahmacāri)
- a wandering Sanyasin living on alms
- Synonym: సన్యాసి (sanyāsi)
- a Buddhist mendicant monk
References
- భిక్షువు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
- "భిక్షువు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page {{{1}}}