Avatar

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Beliefs and thought

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Avatar (Sanskrit: अवतार, IAST: Avatāra; pronounced [ɐʋɐt̪aːɾɐ]) is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means 'descent'. The concept, with a different name, can also be found within Buddhism and Yazidism.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Avatar”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.