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sannyasi

[ suhn-yah-see ]

noun

  1. Hinduism. a wandering beggar and ascetic.


sannyasi

/ sʌnˈjɑːsɪ; sʌnˈjɑːsɪn /

noun

  1. a Brahman who having attained the fourth and last stage of life as a beggar will not be reborn, but will instead be absorbed into the Universal Soul Also calledrenunciate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sannyasi1

1605–15; < Hindi: one who casts away
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sannyasi1

from Hindi: abandoning, from Sanskrit samnyāsin
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Example Sentences

They are monks who never marry, but are quite different from other mendicant brotherhoods, the so-called Sannyasi and Hossein.

The day before we had received a letter from Swami Dayanand, carried to us by a traveling Sannyasi.

One great-sannyasi refused to receive her because she was a woman; her reply brought him humbly to her feet.

A dust-covered sannyasi made this request of Afzal one day during his early boyhood in a small village of eastern Bengal.

Seymour escaped, and returned to India in the dress of a Sannyasi.

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