bhikhu

/ ˈbiːˌku /

noun

1. a fully ordained Buddhist monk

Word History and Origins

Origin of bhikhu¹

Pali, literally: beggar

Example Sentences

The passenger, Mandy Chapple, pleaded guilty and was fined £80, but the driver, Farook Yusuf Bhikhu, is appealing against conviction: he says he didn't give permission for the door to be opened.

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He cited Professor Bhikhu Parekh's definition which says, far from "putting people into ethnic boxes", multiculturalism is a "fusion in which a culture borrows bits of others and creatively transforms both itself and them".

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The Queen these days ranks no higher than 245th, with a fortune the compilers estimate at £290m, just behind Bhikhu and Vijay Patel, who transformed a chain of Essex chemists' shops, and just ahead of Sir Rocco Forte, the hotelier.

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