shamanism

English

Etymology

From shaman +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪmənɪzəm/, /ˈʃɑːmənɪzəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

shamanism (countable and uncountable, plural shamanisms)

1. Any of a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world.

Coordinate terms

• religionsedit

  • agnosticism
  • Asatru
  • atheism
  • Ayyavazhi
  • Baháʼí Faith
  • Bon
  • Buddhism
  • Cao Dai
  • Cheondoism
  • Christianity
  • deism
  • Druidry
  • Druze
  • Eckankar
  • Heathenry
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Jainism
  • Jediism
  • Judaism
  • Kimbanguism
  • Odinism
  • paganism
  • Pastafarianism
  • Raëlism
  • Rastafarianism
  • Rodnovery
  • Romuva
  • Samaritanism
  • Sanamahism
  • Shinto
  • Sikhism
  • Taoism
  • Tengrism
  • Thelema
  • Unitarian Universalism
  • Wicca
  • Yahwism
  • Yazidism
  • Yoruba
  • Zoroastrianism

Derived terms

• neoshamanism
• techno-shamanism

Translations

range of traditional beliefs

• Afrikaans: sjamanisme
• Arabic: شَامَانِيَّة f (šāmāniyya)
• Azerbaijani: şamanlıq
• Basque: xamanismo
• Belarusian: шамані́зм m (šamanízm)
• Bulgarian: шамани́зъм m (šamanízǎm)
• Catalan: xamanisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薩滿教 / 萨满教 (saat³ mun⁵ gaau³)

  Mandarin: 薩滿教 / 萨满教 (zh) (sàmǎnjiào)

• Czech: šamanismus m
• Danish: shamanisme c
• Dutch: sjamanisme
• Esperanto: ŝamanismo
• Estonian: šamanism (et)
• Faroese: shamanisma f
• Finnish: šamanismi (fi), shamanismi
• French: chamanisme (fr) m
• Galician: xamanismo m
• Georgian: შამანიზმი (ka) (šamanizmi)
• German: Schamanismus (de) m
• Greek: σαμανισμός (el) m (samanismós)
• Greenlandic: angakkoqarneq
• Guaraní: avapaje
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: शैमेनिज़्म (śaimenizma), शैमेनिज्म (śaimenijma)
• Hungarian: sámánizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: seamanachas m
• Italian: sciamanesimo m
• Japanese: シャーマニズム (ja) (shāmanizumu), 巫術 (fujutsu)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: бақсылық (baqsylyq)
• Korean: 샤머니즘 (syameonijeum)
• Macedonian: шамани́зам m (šamanízam)
• Maltese: xamaniżmu m
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: бөө мөргөл (böö mörgöl)
• Persian: شمن‌باوری (šaman-bâvari)
• Polish: szamanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: xamanismo (pt) m
• Quechua: paqu yachaq, paqu hampiq
• Romanian: șamanism (ro) n
• Russian: шамани́зм (ru) m (šamanízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шаманизам m

  Roman: šamanizam (sh) m

• Slovak: šamanizmus m
• Slovene: šamanizem (sl) m
• Spanish: chamanismo (es) m
• Swedish: schamanism (sv)
• Tagalog: shamanismo
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: షామానిజం (ṣāmānijaṁ)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: şamanizm (tr), kamlık
• Ukrainian: шамані́зм m (šamanízm), шама́нство n (šamánstvo), шамані́зм m (šamanízm)
• Urdu: شمن پرستی f (śaman prastī)
• Vietnamese: Saman giáo
• Welsh: siamaniaeth f
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can