Gurkha

Meanings

Noun

• A member of the dominant ethnic group in Nepal, with a Himalayan diaspora
• A member of this people recruited to serve in their own elite units in the British and Indian army

Adjective

• referring or belonging to the Gurkha people
• referring or belonging to Gurkha soldiers

Origin

• , from Sanskrit गोरक्ष an epithet of the patron deity Gorakhnath, from .