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sannyasi

sannyasi noun: a man in the stage of sannyasa; a wandering ascetic, a religious mendicant.

Noun

sannyasi (plural sannyasis)

  1. (Hinduism) A man in the stage of sannyasa; a wandering ascetic, a religious mendicant.
    • Only a householder could do the rites, they said – not a sannyasi.2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 56

sannyasi meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Gujarati

sannyasi in Tamil

ஆசிரமி

sannyasi in Urdu

sannyasi
سنیاسی sanyāsī

sannyasi in Gujarati

sannyasi
સંન્યાસી sannyāsī

Forms of sannyasi

pluralsannyasis
alternative formsanyasi
alternative formsunnyasee
alternative formsunnyasi
alternative formsunyasee
alternative formsunyasi

Origin of sannyasi

Via Hindi संन्यासी (sannyāsī), ultimately from Sanskrit संन्यासिन् (saṃnyāsin).

Questions about sannyasi

What does sannyasi mean?
Sannyasi means a man in the stage of sannyasa; a wandering ascetic, a religious mendicant.
What is sannyasi in Tamil?
Sannyasi in Tamil is ஆசிரமி. See Sannyasi meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sannyasi?
Sannyasi is a noun.
What is the plural of sannyasi?
The plural of sannyasi is sannyasis.

Words near sannyasi in the dictionary

  1. sannops
  2. sannup
  3. sannups
  4. sanny
  5. sannyasa
  6. sannyasi
  7. sannyasin
  8. sannyasini
  9. sannyasinis
  10. sannyasins
  11. sannyasis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sannyasi (page history and authors); sannyasi (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سنیاسی (Urdu) (page history and authors); સંન્યાસી (Gujarati) (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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