prana
English edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath; life”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
prana (countable and uncountable, plural pranas)
- (Hinduism, yoga) Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force. [from 18th c.]
- 1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:
- He it is who sends the (in-coming) Prana (life-breath) upward and throws the (out-going) breath downward.
- 1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:
- He who knows Aditi, who rises with Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas.
- 1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:
- May my limbs, speech, Prana (life-force), sight, hearing, strength and all my senses, gain in vigor.
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath, life”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
prana m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- prana in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Lower Sorbian edit
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Participle edit
prana
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa).
Noun edit
prana f
Declension edit
Declension of prana
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
prana
Further reading edit
- prana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
From earlier *plana, from Latin plāna.
Noun edit
prana
- plane (tool)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Participle edit
prana (Cyrillic spelling прана)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
prana m (uncountable)
- (Hindusim) prana
Further reading edit
- “prana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014