| Word form | khangéri |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | temple; church |
| Czech translation | chrám, kostel |
| Hungarian translation | templom |
| Grammatical info | noun, feminine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *khanger-í F |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 156: perhaps < Persian kongere ‘Turm = tower, Zinne = pinnacle, Kuppel = dome’ |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 77: < OIA *ghaṇ(ṭ)-karī ‘the one having a big bell’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 89: perhaps < Persian kungura ‘tower’, perhaps < Sanskrit ghaṇṭāgāra ‘belltower’ |
| Other etymologies | Tálos (1999: 241–2): considers the Persian etymology unlikely du to the initial aspirate; Ancient Romani *khangəri F < *ghaṅgərī < *ghaggərī < OIA ghargharikā F ‘bell’ [Turner 4444]; cf. Prakrit ghagghara- N ‘string of bells’, Hindi gāghrī F, Punjabi ghaggrī F ‘skirt’ |