meditation

See also: Meditation and méditation

English

Etymology

From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)

1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.
2. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
3. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
4. Careful and thorough thought.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration

Related terms

• meditate
• meditative
• meditativeness
• premeditation

Translations

devotional contemplation

• Asturian: meditación f
• Bulgarian: размишление (bg) n (razmišlenie)
• Catalan: meditació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥想 (zh) (míngxiǎng), 沈思 (zh), 沉思 (zh) (chénsī)

• Czech: rozjímání n, meditace f
• Danish: meditation c
• Dutch: meditatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: meditado
• Finnish: mietiskely (fi), meditaatio
• French: méditation (fr) f
• Galician: meditación (gl) f
• German: Meditation (de) f
• Greek: περισυλλογή (el) f (perisyllogí)

  Ancient: μελετήματα (meletḗmata), διαλογισμός (el) m (dialogismós), σύννοια f (súnnoia)

• Hungarian: meditáció (hu)
• Indonesian: meditasi (id), semadi (id)
• Irish: machnamh m
• Japanese: 瞑想 (ja) (めいそう, meisō), 思索 (ja) (しさく, shisaku), 黙想 (もくそう, mokusō)
• Kazakh: толғаныс (tolğanıs)

• Khmer: ឈាន (km) (cʰien), ធ្យាន (km) (tyien), បរិវិតក្ក (km) (pa’re’vi’ta’ka’), បច្ចវេក្ខណៈ (km) (pacca’veekkʰa’na’)
• Korean: 명상 (ko) (myeongsang) (冥想 (ko))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: meditātiō f, meletemata
• Malayalam: ധ്യാനം (ml) (dhyānaṃ)
• Maori: whakaaroarohanga
• Mongolian: бясалгал (mn) (byasalgal)
• Persian: خلسه‎ (fa) (xalse), مدیتیشن‎ (fa) (mediteyshen)
• Polish: medytacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: meditação (pt) f
• Russian: медита́ция (ru) f (meditácija)
• Sanskrit: ध्यान (sa) n (dhyāna), धी (sa) f (dhī), योग (sa) (yoga), समाधि (sa) (samādhi), ध्यानयोग (sa) (dhyānayoga)
• Spanish: meditación (es) f
• Swedish: meditation (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྒོམ (sgom)
• Tocharian B: ompalskoññe
• Ukrainian: медита́ція f (medytácija)
• Vietnamese: ngồi thiền

contemplative discourse

• Bulgarian: медитация f (meditacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉思 (zh) (chénsī)

• Dutch: meditatie (nl) f, overpeinzing (nl) f
• Finnish: pohdinta (fi), pohdiskelu (fi)
• Greek: διαλογισμός (el) m (dialogismós), στοχασμός (el) m (stochasmós), στοχασμός (el) m (stochasmós)

• Hungarian: elmélkedés (hu)
• Irish: machnamh m
• Malayalam: ചിന്ത (ml) (cinta)
• Polish: medytacja (pl) f
• Russian: медита́ция (ru) f (meditácija), разду́мье (ru) n (razdúmʹje), размышле́ние (ru) n (razmyšlénije)
• Sanskrit: ध्यान (sa) (dhyāna), समाधि (sa) (samādhi), चिन्ता (sa) (cintā)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} meditato
• French: ^{(please verify)} méditation (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Meditation (de) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} meditazione (it) f
• Japanese: 黙想 (もくそう, mokusō), 思索

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 명상 (ko) (myeongsang) (myeongsang)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 冥想 (zh) (míngxiǎng)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} مراقبه‎ (fa)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} meditacija (sh) f

Anagrams

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Danish

Etymology

From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meditasjoːn/, [med̥itˢaˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

1. meditation
2. pondering

Inflection

Declension of meditation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	meditation	meditationen	meditationer	meditationerne
genitive	meditations	meditationens	meditationers	meditationernes

See also

• meditation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da