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karma

UK/kərm(ə)/ US/kɐɾm(ɐ)/ fairly common

noun

1.

(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person''s actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation

Origin

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (kárma), nom.sg. of कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”); first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.

Phrases

  • instant karma
  • karma farm
  • karma farmer
  • karma whore
  • karma's a bitch
  • karmic debt

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