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pranayama

Syllables: pra·na·ya·ma

pranayama noun: breathing techniques; breath control, often synchronized with movements between asanas in yoga.

Noun

pranayama (countable and uncountable, plural pranayamas)

  1. Breathing techniques; breath control, often synchronized with movements between asanas in yoga.

pranayama meaning in Sanskrit

pranayama in Sanskrit

pranayama
प्राणायाम prāṇāyāma

Forms of pranayama

pluralpranayamas

Origin of pranayama

From Sanskrit प्राणायाम (prāṇāyāma), from प्राण (prāṇá, “life force, vital energy, the breath”) (whence also English prana) + आयाम (āyāma, “lengthening, extending, stretching”).

Questions about pranayama

What does pranayama mean?
Pranayama means breathing techniques; breath control, often synchronized with movements between asanas in yoga.
What is pranayama in Sanskrit?
Pranayama in Sanskrit is प्राणायाम (prāṇāyāma). See Pranayama meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is pranayama?
Pranayama is a noun.
What is the plural of pranayama?
The plural of pranayama is pranayamas.

Words near pranayama in the dictionary

  1. pranamas
  2. pranams
  3. pranas
  4. Pranay
  5. pranayam
  6. pranayama
  7. pranayamas
  8. pranayams
  9. prance
  10. pranced
  11. pranceful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pranayama (page history and authors); प्राणायाम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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