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sannyasi

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

noun sannyasis · sanyasi · sunnyasee · sunnyasi · sunyasee · sunyasi

  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.

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@misc{sannyasi_2026,
  title = {sannyasi},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sannyasi},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}