mundan

Sanskrit मुण्डन (muṇḍana)

mundan (countable and uncountable, plural mundans)

1. (Hinduism) The ceremonial first tonsure of a child's hair.
   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 70:

     There are no birth records of when my grandmother was born because most children in the refugee camps died before their mundans, when babies have their heads ritually shaved.

• Dunnam

Borrowed from Latin mundanus.

mundan m or n (feminine singular mundană, masculine plural mundani, feminine and neuter plural mundane)

1. worldly, mundane