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noun (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
originBorrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (kárma), nom.sg. of कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”); first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.
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