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sanyasi

sanyasi is the alternative form of sannyasi.

Meaning of sannyasi

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

Forms of sanyasi

pluralsanyasis

Questions about sanyasi

What is sanyasi the alternative form of?
Sanyasi is the alternative form of sannyasi.

Words near sanyasi in the dictionary

  1. sanxian
  2. sanxians
  3. Sanya
  4. Sanyakoan
  5. sanyaku
  6. sanyasi
  7. sanyasis
  8. Sanyi
  9. Sanyuan
  10. Sanz
  11. sanza

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