sannyasi

[ suhn-yah-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

sannyasi

/ sʌnˈjɑːsɪ; sʌnˈjɑːsɪn /

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

1605–15; < Hindi: one who casts away

from Hindi: abandoning, from Sanskrit samnyāsin

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.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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