FromHindiपुरोहित(purohit), fromSanskritपुरोहित(purohita) fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰey-.

purohit (pluralpurohits)

1. (India) A familypriest.
   • 1996, Lise McKean,Divine Enterprise, page327:

     Thepurohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.

   • 1997,Kiran Nagarkar,Cuckold, HarperCollins, published2013, page42:

     At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, thepurohit put a tilak on his forehead.

   • 2006, Shyam Singh Shashi,The World of Nomads, page66:

     Thepurohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.

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