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Lingam

Definition: Lingam

Lingam

Noun

1. The Hindu phallic symbol of Siva.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lingam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)


Crosswords: Lingam

English words defined with "lingam": LingaYoni. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lingam

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

"Lingam" is the Sanskrit word for penis. As well as being used literally, the term is used for a symbolic representation of the male sexual organ, associated with the worship of the Hindu god Shiva. A stone lingam is a naturally occurring ovular stone, also associated with Hinduism.

See also yoni.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lingam."

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Commercial Usage: Lingam

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Books

  • The emerald lingam (reference)

  • The self-milking cow and the bleeding lingam : criss-cross of motifs in Indian temple legends (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lingam

Illustrations:
Lingam

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lingam

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  lingam

45

  lingam massage

43

  lingam shiva

13

  yoni lingam

7

  lingam shiva stone

3

  enhancement lingam

3

  gnosis lingam

3

  lingam massage photo

2

  enlargement lingam

2

  lingam stone

2

  in islam lingam

2

  lingam massage picture

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lingam

Derivations

Words beginning with "lingam": lingams. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lingam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lenygon, ligam, ligan, lignan, Linga, lingan, lingham, Lingla, lingon, Linham, Llangan, Llangian, Llangwm, longam, longan, longum, Lonigan, Lynham. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lingam

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laming, malign.

Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n"

-1 letter: algin, align, gamin, liang, ligan, liman, linga.

-2 letters: agin, amin, anil, gain, glia, glim, lain, lang, lima, limn, ling, magi, mail, main, mina, nail.

-3 letters: ail, aim, ain, ami, ani, gal, gam, gan, gin, lag, lam, lin, mag, man, mig, mil, nag, nam, nil, nim.

-4 letters: ag, ai, al, am, an, in, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n"
 

+1 letter: ambling, blaming, calming, flaming, geminal, lambing, lamming, lamping, lingams, loaming, mailing, maligns, malling, malting, mangily, marling, mauling, palming.

 

+2 letters: alarming, claiming, clamming, clamping, emailing, empaling, flamingo, flamming, gambling, germinal, gleaming, gloaming, gnomical, imaginal, impaling, liegeman, ligament, mackling, maculing, magnolia, mailings, maligned, maligner, malignly, malinger, mangling, mantling, marbling, marginal, marlings, medaling, metaling, miauling, misalign, mulligan, psalming, rambling, sampling, slamming, tegminal, wambling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lingam


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 6E 67 61 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "lingam"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "lingam"

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