monk

• ⇰ महन्त
• ⇰ मठधारी
• ⇰ संन्यासी
• ⇰ यती
• ⇰ मठवासी

• ⇰ संन्यासी
• ⇰ भिक्षु

• ⇰ A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
• ⇰ A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a >friar >, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
• ⇰ A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
• ⇰ A South American monkey (<spn>Pithecia monachus</spn>); also applied to other species, as <spn>Cebus xanthocephalus</spn>.