Aghori
noun
Aghori is a noun meaning “A tribe of Hindu ascetics who are or were thought to eat the flesh of corpses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-H-O-R-I, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Aghori mean?
noun
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A tribe of Hindu ascetics who are or were thought to eat the flesh of corpses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Aghori?
Aghori appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Aghori in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an order of Hindu ascetics:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aghori |
| German | Aghori |
| Portuguese | aghori |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Aghori come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit अघोर (aghora, “fearless”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).