Linga is valid Scrabble Word

Is linga a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for LINGA in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Sanskrit) the phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshipped in his character of the creative and reproductive power, also LINGAM
a symbol of divine generative energy, especially a phallus or phallic object as a symbol of Shiva.
Alt. of Lingam

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

same as lingam

Words related to LINGA

lingam9 lingas7

Words that contain LINGA

lingam9 lingas7 lingams10 galingale11 galingales12

How to use LINGA in a sentence

Chief among these is the worship of a column known as the Linga, the emblem under which he is now most commonly adored.
Secondly, linga worship, though prevalent in the south, is not confined to it, but flourishes in all parts of India, even in Assam and Nepal.
Some Hindus deny that the Linga is a phallic emblem.
It consists in placing leaves on the linga and pouring holy water over it.
They are less definitely sectarian than later works such as the Nârada and Linga Purânas, yet all are more or less sectarian.
I have already mentioned the view that the worship of Siva and the Linga is Dravidian in origin and borrowed by the Aryans.
In the centre stood a pedestal for a linga or an image, with a channel to carry off libations, leading to a spout in the wall.
In the tank of the temple of Mahakut is a half submerged shrine, from which rises a stone linga on which are carved four faces bearing moustaches.
The presiding deity of the Bayon was Siva, adored under the form of the linga.
Two Sivakaivalya Brahmans, Sivasoma and his pupil Vamasiva, chaplain of the king, built a temple called the Sivasrama and erected a linga therein.

The next king, Yasovarman, who founded the town of Angkor round the Bayon, built near his palace another linga temple, now known as Ba-puon.
The Bayon, or Sivasrama, was presumably a linga temple, yet the conjecture is not confirmed as one would expect by any indubitable evidence in the decoration or arrangements.
It is kept in a village called Nandikesvara, but on certain festivals it is put on a linga at the temple of Mahakut.
It was the death-leap, the ledge from which the one of the human sacrifice to Omkar leapt, to crash in death beside the Linga.
In an example like this smoke is technically called linga, or hetu.
The expedition now sailed to Linga, a small port of the Joassamees, and burnt it to the ground.

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