Circumambulate

Word CIRCUMAMBULATE
Character 14
Hyphenation cir cum am bu late
Pronunciations /ˌsɝ.kəmˈæm.bju.leɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Circumambulate"

What do we mean by circumambulate?

To walk around (something), especially as part of a ritual. transitive verb

To walk round or about.

To go round; search through.

To walk round about. transitive verb

To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose. verb

Walk around something verb

To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.

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The word "circumambulate" in example sentences

During the Hajj, Muslims uniformly circumambulate around the Holy Kaaba in what is known as 'Tawaaf', irrespective of gender, nationality or sect. ❋ Amin G. Aaser (2011)

Indeed, saying this, I recall one elderly Khampa, a former bodyguard who used to come each day to circumambulate my residence in Dharamsala (a popular devotion). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the evening, hundreds of pilgrims circumambulate the stupa or meditate quietly in its shadows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You all studiously circumambulate this elephant in the room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They offer him a bargain price for as much land as he can circumambulate in a day, and he walks on and on, taking in more and more rich grasslands and damp, fertile hollows. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A month-long fast and purification ritual in which devout Muslims often make a pilgrimage to Mecca called a Hajj, in which they circumambulate a large square block until the music stops, at which point they must sit down immediately, much like in our game of musical chairs, where whoever is left standing is out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cairene repaired to the Haram temple, to circumambulate the ❋ Unknown (2006)

Shai Oster Pilgrims circumambulate a holy Buddhist shrine in Labrang monastery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If we have to journey to the house of a beloved, circumambulate around it seven times, but finally depart without meeting and seeing Him, every sound human being would wonder in astonishment. [email protected] (2007)

"You need to circumambulate the Kaa'ba seven times when you first come to Mecca," said our tour leader who is also now my roommate along with her son and a woman from Mali named Yasmeen who says that she loves to cook. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I then took the "King Faud Escalator" to the roof of the mosque and watched the crowd circumambulate the Kaa'ba below me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In it, he described that Buddhists circumambulate and prostrate to a stone cube draped with cloth, as Muslims do at the Kaaba in Mecca. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As many as 70,000 angels circumambulate it every day. ❋ Sean (2006)

The Sufis build shrines as graves for their masters, circumambulate them and light butter lamps, reminiscent of Buddhists 'practice around stupas of deceased masters. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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