lingam
/ling-guhm/US // ˈlɪŋ gəm //UK // (ˈlɪŋɡəm) //
灵岩,凌云,琳琅
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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