गुरू gurū

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919	On this site
c	ch
ś	śh
ṣ	ṣh
r̥	r̥i

A few reading pointers:

ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

Hindi · n. · m.

Earlier definition

Definition

A teacher, mentor, preceptor, spiritual guide.
Jupiter, the Preceptor of the gods.
(Bābā) A spiritual guide to achieve liberation.

Usual translation

guru

Origin of the definition

Guru. Spiritual guide.

गुरू gurū guru (nm) a teacher; mentor; preceptor, spiritual guide; jupiter, (ironically) a knave fellow; (a) grave; heavy; difficult; long (syllable); ~कुल in olden times in India, a residential teaching institution, run by an outstanding scholar; ~ग्रन्थ साहब the sacred book of the Sikhs; ~घंटाल knave and cunning (fellow); ~जन elderly people; ~दक्षिणा the fee or honorarium voluntarily paid by the disciple to his preceptor at the conclusion of his studies; ~भाई brother by virtue of preceptorial affinity, a fellow disciple; ~मंत्र an initiatory mantr from a spiritual guide.