MEANING: noun:
1. A religious teacher, mystic, or yogi.
2. A learned man: pundit.

ETYMOLOGY: From Hindi swami (master), from Sanskrit swami (master, lord). Ultimately from the Indo-European root s(w)e- (third person reflexive pronoun), which also gave us self, sibling, suicide, secret, sober, sullen, idiot, and Irish Sinn Fein (literally, We Ourselves). Earliest documented use: 1773.

SWANI - river in Florida

'OWAMI - phrase preceding the answer "Pretty well, thanks!"

SHAMI - Irish detectives (pl. of SHAMUS)