Ascetic in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “ascetic” in Hindi is तपस्वी, pronounced sanyasi/ tapasvi/ yogi se sambanadhit — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
Borrowed from Sanskrit तपस्वी (tapasvī), a compound of तपस्य (tapasya, “austere meditation, asceticism”) + -ई (-ī, agent suffix, from -इन् (-in)); the first element literally means "produced by heat" and comes from तपस् (tapas, “warmth”), from the root तप् (tap, “to heat”), but by semantic shift for religious context, the meaning of "warmth" was compared to the pain of austere meditation or the "burning" of past karma.
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