pranayama

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit प्राणायाम (prāṇāyāma), from प्राण (prāṇá, “life force, vital energy, the breath”) (whence also English prana) + आयाम (āyāma, “lengthening, extending, stretching”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pra‧na‧ya‧ma

Noun

pranayama (countable and uncountable, plural pranayamas)

1. Breathing techniques; breath control, often synchronized with movements between asanas in yoga.

Translations

breathing techniques

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸節奏／呼吸节奏 (hūxī jiézòu)

• Czech: pránajáma f
• Finnish: pranayama
• Hungarian: pránajáma (hu)