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sunyasi

sunyasi 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 sunyasi

pluralsunyasis

Questions about sunyasi

What is sunyasi the alternative form of?
Sunyasi is the alternative form of sannyasi.

Words near sunyasi in the dictionary

  1. Sunwui
  2. SUNY
  3. Sunyani
  4. sunyasee
  5. sunyasees
  6. sunyasi
  7. sunyasis
  8. sunyata
  9. sunyatas
  10. Sunyavadi
  11. Sunyavadis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunyasi (page history and authors); sannyasi (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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