SWASTIKA

noun Etymology: Sanskrit svastika, from svasti well-being, from su- well + as- to be; akin to Sanskrit asti he is, Old English is; from its being regarded as a good luck symbol Date: 1871 a symbol or ornament in the form of a Greek cross with the ends of the arms extended at right angles all in the same rotary direction, a ~ used as a symbol of anti-Semitism or of Nazism