sannyasi

English

Alternative forms

• sanyasi, sunnyasee, sunnyasi, sunyasee, sunyasi

Etymology

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

Noun

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.