Urdu Dictionary

جوگي जोगी jogī

H جوگي जोगी jogī [S. योगी], s.m. One who performs the kind of religious exercise called jog, a contemplative saint; a devotee, an ascetic, a hermit; one supposed to have obtained supernatural powers, a magician, a conjurer;—name of a particular mixed caste who are commonly weavers (this caste do not burn but bury their dead; and the women are sometimes buried alive with the corpses of their husbands).