asana

Borrowed from Sanskrit आसन (ā́sana, āsaná, “sitting down”), from आस्ते (ā́ste, “to sit down”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːsənə/

asana (plural asanas)

1. A body position, typically associated with the practice of yoga.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 414:

     She had taught him several yoga asanas and now every morning he obediently performed them while he thought of her sitting somewhere out among the olives beyond the tower in the lotus pose which seemed to cost her no effort at all, intoning the Aum […]

2. A moth of species Melese asana, of tropical South America.

• asana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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asana (plural asanas)

1. Pterocarpus indicus (syn. Pterocarpus echinatus), found from southeastern Asia to northern Australia, the Solomon Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands.
2. The wood of such trees, sometimes sold as Philippine mahogany.

• (Pterocarpus indicus): angsana, Pterocarpus indicus f. echinatus

Alteration of asna This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

asana

1. (India) Indian laurel, asna (Terminalia elliptica, syn. Terminalia tomentosa), Terminalia alata, of south and southeastern Asia.

• Category:en:Yoga poses

• Asana (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “asana”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. (supplement)
• “asana”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Sana'a, Sanaa

Borrowed from Old Javanese āsana (“sitting; seat; dwelling; posture”), from Sanskrit आसन (āsana, “seat, chair”).

• IPA^(key): /a.sa.nə/
• Hyphenation: a‧sa‧na

asana (Balinese script ᬆᬲᬦ)

1. posture (of seating)

• “asana” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Sanskrit आसन (āsana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑsɑnɑ/, [ˈɑ̝s̠ɑ̝nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑsɑnɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧sa‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): asa‧na

asana

1. (yoga) asana

• “asana”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Sanskrit आसन (āsana). Doublet of angsana.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈsana/ [aˈsa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: a‧sa‧na

asana (plural asana-asana)

1. asana, a body position

   Synonyms: pose, gerakan

2. seat, chair
3. sitting in peculiar posture according to the custom of devotees
4. (archaeology) related to definitions above

• “asana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Sanskrit असन, आशन (asana, āśana, “Indian laurel”).

• IPA^(key): /a.sa.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Homophones: āsana, aśana
• Hyphenation: a‧sa‧na

asana

1. (botany) Terminalia.

• Javanese: ꦱꦤ (sana)

• "asana" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• IPA^(key): /aˈsa.na/

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: a‧sa‧na

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आसन (āsana).

asana f

1. asana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

asana m inan

1. genitive singular of asan

• asana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• asana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French assainir or German assanieren.

a asana (third-person singular present asanează, past participle asanat) 1st conjugation

1. to drain a swamp

• asana in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /aˈsana/ [aˈsa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: a‧sa‧na

asana m (plural asanas)

1. asana

• “asana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024