yatra means A Hindu pilgrimage. It carries an Arena rating of 1411, earned across 82 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, yatra ranks #1,644 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,560 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #4,244 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #4,309 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “yatra” is a great word
YATRA — [Noun] A pilgrimage, especially in Hinduism and other Indian religions, undertaken as a sacred expedition to a holy site or as an inherently spiritual journey. From Sanskrit यात्रा (yātrā, "journey, procession, expedition"). Unlike safar, which denotes any general, often mundane travel, or tour, which implies a journey for pleasure or business, a yatra is travel suffused with devotion. It is the bare foot on the sun-baked road to a distant temple, the collective murmur of mantras on a mountain path, and the slow procession of a chariot bearing a deity through crowded streets—a moving prayer that believes the arduous path itself can be a form of arrival.
Etymology
From Sanskrit यात्रा (yātrā).
noun
- A Hindu pilgrimage.e.g.“Thousands of activists and vehicles therefore diffused quietly out of Delhi in the following days to reassemble in a yatra that now swelled to 40–50,000 people.” — 1999, Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 261:
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