Garba
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Garba can mean;
  • Garba (dance)
    Garba (dance)
    Garba is an Indian form of dance that originated in the Gujarat region. The name garba comes from the Sanskrit term Garbha and Deep . Many traditional garbas are performed around a central lit lamp or picture/statues of different avatars of Goddess Shakti...

    , a form of dance originating in Gujarat, India. The term "garba" (Sanskrit: garbha) holds the semantic field
    Semantic field
    A semantic field is a technical term in the discipline of linguistics to describe a set of words grouped by meaning in a certain way. The term is also used in other academic disciplines, such as anthropology and computational semiotics.-Definition and usage:...

     'womb' and is part of the Sanskrit compounds: Hiranyagarbha
    Hiranyagarbha
    Image:Hinducosm Map1.svg|thumb|Click an area to go there. This is one of many material universes, Brahmāṇḍa, which expand from Mahā Viṣṇu when He breathes.|400px|alt=One Brahmāṇḍa, with Garbhodakaśāyī-Viṣṇurect 216 61 277 80 Brahma...

    , Tathagatagarbha, Garbhagriha
    Garbhagriha
    Garbhagriha or Garbha griha is the small unlit shrine of a Hindu temple.Garbhagriha or ' is a Sanskrit word meaning the interior of the sanctum sanctorum, the innermost sanctum of a Hindu temple where resides the murti of the primary deity of the temple...

    (Sanctum sanctorum
    Sanctum sanctorum
    The Latin phrase sanctum sanctorum is a Latin translation of the biblical term: "Holy of Holies" which generally refers in Latin texts to the Holiest place of the Tabernacle of Ancient Israel and later the Temples in Jerusalem, but also has some derivative use in application to imitations of the...

    ) and Garbhadhatu.

Places

  • Garba, Central African Republic
    Garba, Central African Republic
    Garba is a village in the Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture in the northern Central African Republic.-External links:**...

  • Garba, Sichuan
    Garba, Sichuan
    Garba, Sichuan is a town in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China....

  • Garba, the Hungarian
    Hungarian language
    Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

     name for Gurba village, Şicula Commune, Arad County, Romania
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