nirvana

Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) +‎ वा (vā, “to blow”), the second part cognate with Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), weather, vent and wind.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɪəˈvɑːnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /nɪɹˈvɑnə/, /nɚˈvɑnə/, /nɚˈvænə/

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• (India) IPA^(key): /nɪɾˈʋɑːn(ə)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

nirvana (countable and uncountable, plural nirvanas)

1. (Buddhism) Complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
2. (non-Buddhist, colloquial) State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure or peace.
   • 1988 February 7, Stephanie Poggi, “What's Choice Got To Do With It?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 5:

     Welcome to this celebration of legal abortion. I wish January 22 meant more than that. The truth is that we are not winging our way to a state of nirvana for reproductive rights.

• nirvana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Anirvan, navarin

Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) +‎ वा (vā, “to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnirʋɑnɑ/, [ˈnirʋɑ̝nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irʋɑnɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nir‧va‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): nir‧va‧na

nirvana

1. nirvana

• “nirvana”, 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 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /niʁ.va.na/

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nirvana m (plural nirvanas)

1. nirvana

• “nirvana”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) +‎ वा (vā, “to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /nirˈva.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: nir‧và‧na

nirvana m (invariable)

1. nirvana

• nirvanico

Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) +‎ वा (vā, “to blow”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
• Hyphenation: nir‧va‧na

nirvana m (plural nirvanas)

1. (Buddhism) nirvana (complete cessation of suffering)

Borrowed from French nirvana.

nirvana f (uncountable)

1. nirvana

Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) +‎ वा (vā, “to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /nirʋǎna/
• Hyphenation: nir‧va‧na

nirvàna f (Cyrillic spelling нирва̀на)

1. nirvana

• “nirvana”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) +‎ वा (vā, “to blow”). The masculine gender in Spanish seems to adapt the neuter gender of the Sanskrit original, compare mantra, yoga.

• IPA^(key): /niɾˈbana/ [niɾˈβ̞a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: nir‧va‧na

nirvana m (plural nirvanas)

1. nirvana

• “nirvana”, 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