Definitions for sannyasi

sannyasi sann·ya·si

Spelling: [suhn-yah-see]
IPA: /sʌnˈyɑ si/

Sannyasi is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in sannyasi (aainnssy).

Definitions for sannyasi

noun

  1. Hinduism. a wandering beggar and ascetic.

Origin of sannyasi

1605-15; Hindi: one who casts away

Examples for sannyasi

The sannyasi ordered seven jars of water and seven jars of milk to be brought to him.

This sannyasi was no other than the young thief in disguise.

Seymour escaped, and returned to India in the dress of a sannyasi.

They are monks who never marry, but are quite different from other mendicant brotherhoods, the so-called sannyasi and Hossein.

I am only a sannyasi holding the theory of illusion (my-vd), but even I have been steeped in the love of Krishna by your touch.

The day before we had received a letter from Swami Dayanand, carried to us by a traveling sannyasi.

True, I have become a sannyasi with or without your consent, but I shall never slight your wishes.

Adwaita Acharya—an elderly scholar of Shantipur and associate in Chaitanya's devotions before he became a sannyasi.

When I first saw you, you looked like a sannyasi; but now I behold in you Krishna, the cowherd!

So I came to you, on hearing of your reputation, and yet you praise me because I am a sannyasi!

Word Value for sannyasi
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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