Swami
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- This article is about the Hindi honorific. For the music band, see Swami (musical band).
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Swami is primarily a Hindu honorific, loosely akin to "master" or "lord". It is derived from the Sanskrit language and means "owner of oneself", denoting complete mastery over instinctive and lower urges. It is a title added to one's name to emphasize learning and, of course, mastery of a specific field of knowledge, most often religious and/or spiritual.
In the Bengali language, the word (pronounced SHA-mi) while carrying its original meaning, has a dual meaning as 'husband'.
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