Rite of passage in Hindi
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The meaning of “rite of passage” in Hindi is यादगार उत्सव, pronounced yadagar utsav — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
a ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood)
From rite + of + passage, a calque of French rite de passage. The French term was coined by French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) and popularized in his work Les rites de passage (1909).
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