sannyasi

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Etymology

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

Noun

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sannyasi (plural sannyasis)

  1. (Hinduism) A man in the stage of sannyasa; a wandering ascetic, a religious mendicant.
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 56:
      Only a householder could do the rites, they said – not a sannyasi.