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How to pronounce lingam in English?

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lingam
After about six weeks in the Patala-lingam, he was carried out and cleaned up.
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The lingam resides deep within the temple compound of buildings, courtyards and gardens.
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Inside of this chakra is wrapped up the goddess kundalini three times around a black lingam.
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It is paralleled by other south Asian uses of the lingam symbol.
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Lingam says things could get worse as construction nears his business just as school begins this fall.
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It decorated a kosa, or metal sleeve fitted to a lingam.
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The lands and lingam have vanished over the centuries.
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Shiva is worshipped in the form of a lingam, a phallic symbol with a yoni that represents female creative energy.
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Grandfather DeWhit, a Dionysian Scattergood Baines, is not only the commu nity's pillar but its lingam as well.
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  • The Hindu phallic symbol of Siva
  • The lingam (IAST: liu1E45gau1E43, also linga, ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, meaning sign, symbol or phallus) is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu deity, Shiva, used for worship in temples, smaller shrines, or as self-manifested natural objects. In traditional Indian society, the lingam is seen as a symbol of the energy and potential of Shiva himself.
  • The penis or phallus, especially when worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva
  • The erect penis: companion to Yoni, and a symbolic of creative power.
  • The male symbol of reproduction in Hindu sex-worship.
  • Phallic symbol of energy and fertility associated with the god Shiva.
  • The dangling male appendage that fits inside a yoni; see yoni.
  • Sanskrit for the male sexual organ meaning "wand of light." The symbol of Shiva.
  • Sanscrit: the erect phallus of Lord Shiva, object of worship by the hindu devotees.