guru
n.— «In Brampton’s Springdale neighbourhood, turbaned Sikh youth recently arrived from India are commonly called “guru” and other derogatory terms by their “coconut” second-generation Punjabi-Canadian peers.» —“The feud and the firebomb” by San Grewal Toronto Star (Canada) May 22, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The English language has been greatly enriched by borrowings from the languages of Asia. Barely scratching the surface, we have from Japan skosh, tycoon, tsunami, origami, yen, kimono, futon, and karaoke. From Chinese comes yen, kowtow, gung ho, and...
Shuba in Sammamish, Washington, grew up in India, where she heard speakers of Indian English refer to an eggplant as a brinjal. She assumed that this was a British English term, but later realized that in Britain, this vegetable is called an...